you're religious!

Saw a dream last night. One of those vivid ones that I rarely get.

We are on a trip to Goa, walking around places very similar to the ones we were in when we went with Amit. But this time the people with us are Hari, China and Tunu. Proper schoolboys trip.

Guess what the occasion is? We are celebrating your successful recovery from liver transplant surgery. We all had a scare with you in the hospital, but thankfully the doctors got you in time and managed to fix you.

You are now back with us, but obviously cannot drink. So this is a fully detox trip where we are doing things, including going to some of those really cool places we have visited in Goa before, but not drinking.

However, in your case, it wasn’t just the teetotaling that was new to you, you were also being extremely religious. Both of these were alien to you before.

At one point, you saw a small temple and you immediately picked the chalk from there and smeared it on your forehead and also on the foreheads of everyone else.

But when it came to me, instead of my forehead, you smeared it on my nose. I looked at myself in the mirror and asked you why the difference for me.

And you say that in my case I don’t need blessings from God, but I could do with covering the ugliness on my nose.

It was good to see that your sense of humor at least was still intact.

It was good to see you period. 

And the dream was so vivid, that I completely believed you are still with us. All that happened was a nasty scare of a hospital operation with you. Now you are fine and taking care of yourself and having a good time with all of us. Just like the good old days.