my pet

As eveeryone knows there are different kinds of  love…its not always necessary that love has to between a man and a woman…it can be between a person and animals also,in my vase it is a bird.I will tell you the story of my australian parrot sonu today.Sonu came into our lives when he was given as a birthday present along with his partner to my younger brother two years back.There he was cute looking,smooth silky skin with some yellow strands on top of his head..he was just two months old then…i remember for the first two days he refused to let go of the bars surrounding the cage,whereas his partner who was sick kept on moving about. This guy used to get down only when he was hungry or thirsty,otherwise he used to remain there and observe,often wondering where he had come?He never used to let anybody come near him in the beginning..then after few days his partner died…now even he sensed that something was wrong…so he kept unusually quite…everyday we used to talk to him…and the first words he uttered was my name…i was so happy that day ..then everyday we used to have a daily conversation ..he slowly started learning words…whenever he never saw anybody he used to ask where is everyone in his language.when i used to come back from work,he used to ask me where had i gone and i used to tell him office…then he used to repeat the words office again and again..slowly and slowly we learnt that he was very intelligent,very observant and he used to love listening to songs a lot and cars a lot….he could understand our emotions quite well…whenever anyone in our house used to be angry and shout,he used to keep quite sensing something was wrong..there are many incidents…last year in august , i had gone to goa with my friends…when i came back home , i got welcomed by so many of his questions…later mom told me that he used to keep on searching for me…everyone whether it be our family or relatives or friends ,our socity people loved him a lot…and he remembered each and everyone…and used to talk to everyone…the first thing anyone who knew us used to ash how is sonu…whenever the bell used to ring or the telephone used to ring he used to see if anybody is answering or not…if no one used to answer then he used to call us …he always had a smiling face and he used to become particularly happy when we used to take him to the terrace ( i have a terrace flat) or i used to pick him and make him sit on my lap..he used to be very happy…he also was very hot tempered..whenever anyone used to touch his tail he used to shout at that person but he never bit anyone…he was very loving.. and he used to understand each and everything we told him…he was a good listener and he knew each and every corner of the house..normally all the parrots have only chillies and guauvas but sonu used to have every thing from chapatis to papad and he used to love kakdi and kotmir a lot…given these he could eat them the entire day..he used to eat whenever we used to eat and when he knew that we are sleeping he also used to sleep…he sometimes used to dance to some of the songs that we used to listen …oh yes in the evening mostly both of us,me and sonu used to listen to songs or watch movies..his current fav was kabhi kabhi aditi and he also loved mere pas aao from natwarlal and pal pal from munnabhai…he was someone whom everybody loved selflessly,unconditionally…he made us a family again by binding us in the beautiful feeling of love…he had an accurate sense of time also…whenever the time for his daily outing used to come,.if we had forgotten it ,he used to see that we remember it by telling us at that particular time.. since the past two years we even celebrated his birthday

on this janmastami,he was playing as usual and had a bit of cold and had not eaten the entire day…so me and my dad took him to a doctor..the doctors gave him medicine and prescribed some more and said he will be fine within 4 hrs…and he was doing a lot of masti,but for the first time in two years he tried to open his cage door…i told mom abt this..and once when he came and down,,he refused to climb up on his resting place…that day i was fasting and the janmastami fast needs to be broken after 12 midnight..he saw that my dad had eaten his food…before going of to sleep my dad came and kissed him..yes,sonu used to give everyone a good night kiss…at midnight we performed the pooja..he sat through the pooja also and me and my mom had dinner and for the first time i felt a bit uneasy…i just looked at him…and ate my food…after i finished my food,he called my mom and gave her a kiss and me 2 and just looked at us…and we were stroking him and he suddenly collapsed never to get up again

There will be always memories of him because no one can fill that void…yesterday was his chautha…i know for other people he may be just a pet but for us and for those who knew him we all realise what he was to us…may god rest his soul in peace…we miss him a lot