Seasons Come and Seasons Go......

This post is solely dedicated to my sweet sister and all my dear cousins.....

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Long, long ago so long ago a woman who went to jungle to pick up wood logs for her kitchen forgets her way back home. As the evening turns to dark and night start approaching she gets trapped in the jungle. She is very afraid by annoying sounds coming from the jungle. She can even hear the sounds of owls and wolfs. She is tiered and hungry too. As she finds no way to back home, she thinks of searching some safe place to spend the night in that jungle. Upon little search she could find a dim blinking light coming from a little far place. Thinking she could find help she reaches the place. It is a small abandoned hut. She will knock the door but as she could not hear any reply she will open and get inside. To her surprise she could see a neat, clean and well décor inside that small hut. She scans the place and she could not find anyone living there. So she thinks of resting herself in that hut for the night and back home as soon as sun light starts falling on earth in the morning. She can see a small wooden cot and a water jug lying near to it. She satisfies her thirst and sits in the bed. Then suddenly she hears a knocking sound on the door…she will get frightened and in a shivering voice she will ask, who is it?....no reply and then she will ask again…then a hot and loud voice will say…hello aunty I am summer….can I step in for a moment? Then she will say welcome son…..nice to see you…As soon as summer steps in a hot air blows in…Then summer will say aunty can I ask you something? Yeah beta (son) you can, then summer will say do you like me? Oh who in the world will not like you dear….you bring warmth after those winter days….you bring long summer vacation….you bring lots of summer fruits with you especially king of fruits 'mango'….people like to pamper themselves with ice creams and juices….you bring lot more things with you…you are a good season my son….by hearing this summer will get happy and gifts her a bag of gold coins. She thanks summers and summer leaves.....she makes her way to bed to get her some sleep, then again someone knocks the door and this time comes the rainy season and asks Do you like me aunty? Oh you are such a beautiful season…after a warm summer everyone wants to soak themselves in your cool showers…farmers wait fro you….children like to play….by making paper boats….we love to have bajji’s, pakodi’s and many munching snacks and enjoy the down pouring showers…..Rainy season gets happy and gifts a bag of gold coins and leave and again a knock on the door wakes up aunty and she opens to find winter season at the doorsteps….she welcomes winter and says winter is most charismatic season, which brings Christmas and new year with it and people wear beautiful sweaters and shawls…..pamper themselves with hot coffee and teas, soups and piping hot food…..you are a lovely season beta (son)….winter gets happy and gifts her a bag of gold coins….night pass into day and slowly sun starts rising on the silver screen, mesmerizing it’s presence….aunty wakes up to find herself with three bags of gold coins….she finds her way back home in the broad day light and tells the story in the neighborhood.

Upon hearing this story a greedy woman in the neighborhood goes to jungle in the evening and stays in that hut for a night…..again a knock and summer enters and asks whether she likes her or not? Then the greedy woman will say who in the world will like you…you bring drought…people will suffer without water….hot winds takes up all our energy and we can’t even plan of going out in hot sun….che…che..che…you are a very bad season…back off she will shout….by hearing this summer will get angry and blows a warm winds and go….then comes the winter…by seeing winter she will shout…stop there…you dirty season…with the onset of winter people will be affected with flu and colds……will have to reheat and eat everything and snow fall worsens the places…you are a very bad season…move away she will scream on winter…winter blows a chill wind and go….then comes the rainy season….stand there near the door….don’t you dare come in shouts the greedy woman….you are one of the worst season…you will bring floods, people have to move away from their homes and children will bring lot of mud into the house through there shoes…you make everything stop….you are very bad….go away screams the greedy woman….rain will get angry and showers a sudden down pour on the woman and moves away….and in the morning when the sun starts rising she will return home without anything teaching us a simple moral…..Be good, Do good and Say good. Seasons come and seasons go…it is in your hands to make use of the season…either you enjoy it or not….Seasons too will teach us a lot…it is up to us….what we are learning from it?....Hope you like this story…..