Laddu, my bestest best friend. She is not of the same species but she is a piece of my soul. My baby, she is the best. Her loving and caring ways. Her innocent, naughty and comforting eyes. Her unconditional love. She is a bundle of joy. I feel she is an angel. The bond we share is that of love, trust and understanding. Who says animals don't talk, they do talk. She is my best buddy. She has been with me through thick and thin of my life.
We spend lot of time together. I keep talking with her about what's going on in the world, I keep telling her about my aims, love, frds, complains, regrets, opinions and so on. I tell her everything. She looks at me as if she understands everything There r times when I have cried sitting with her when I am feeling sad about something. She comes and licks me and that gives me a lot of comfort .she has always been with me,by my side. We play around in the garden. We play running and catching. She runs and I run after her to catch her. Then sometimes we wrestle and we roll in the mud, getting all dirty. Then amma scolds us both. Sometimes my clothes are torn playing with her. When I am watering the plants, I spray water on her and she runs. She doesn't like water. Even when I am giving her a bath she cries a lot, so I give her a bath for only when she becomes very unclean. We spend time admiring nature and listening to the chirping of birds,sometimes we sit all night sitting and spending time,ejoying the silence if the night. When I am with her I forget about all my worries and I am in peace with myself. When she was a baby, she was very stout and round,just like a ball . So I name named her Laddu. My Laddu. She is a delight to watch her play. She grew up really fast. But I still feel she is a baby. My baby, my daughter. When I come back from college tired and haggard, she is the one who welcomes me with her loving eyes. Looking at her eyes I feel that life is beautiful. There is a unique bonding. The very thought about Laddu makes me happy. The very thought that somebody is waiting for you at home for you to comeback, who loves you makes me eager to comeback home. When I am with her I forget about the world. I have solved many mysteries about life discussing with her.hahahaha. We have watched sunrise and sunsets together. Spending time with her has a healing effect on me. There are no pretensions and inhibitions in our friendship. It is a pure bond of love and caring. I can do anything for her. She is a incorrigible brat with a pure and loving heart. Sometimes she bites dads shoes and then we both get scoldings. When I scold her she looks at me with her innocent eyes and then I melt and start laughing. Amma loves her a lot. Bro also loves her a lot. She runs to the corner of the street when dad goes to office .
We used to go for morning walks. But now my laziness predominates and I am not getting up in the morning. When we go for walks, the fresh cool breeze, and the silence before dawn, and then chirping of the birds during sunrise, everything is overwhelming. It's wonderful. Nature at its best. I love morning walks. They invigorate me and fill me with new inspiration to start a new day. To make a new beginning. I have decided from tomorrow, I will start going for morning walks. Off course I have taken this decision many times but then I don't implement, but from tommorow I will start going for morning walks. Morning walks are awesome.
About Laddu, many advised us to get her operated so that no babies were born. But I dint want to deprive her of the joy of being a mother. Then she mated and gave birth to six cute puppies. it was diwali back in 2004. Laddu was having babies and I was so tensed, worried and I was jumping around, as I could do nothing. It was crying. It was an anxious moment. Soon the puppies were born. One puppy died as soon as it was born. I went to her and I saw it in her eyes, a motherly pride. She was showing me her babies. My joy knew no bounds. I was very happy. More than anything, I was happy that Laddu was safe. Laddu and me had great time with her babies. I used to watch the babies drink milk and it's so wonderful. All the puppies were beautiful just like her. We used to play together. I wanted to keep them all but then I could not for obvious reasons. I have their pictures, n their fond and cherished memories with me. We kept the puppies for five months and then we gave them for adoption. I prayed to god to bless the puppies with a bright future, good guardian and a great life. Anyways even now they are always in my prayers.
About the times we spend together, I sing before Laddu and she is forced to listen. Sometimes she makes sounds like ooooo, donno what it means.hahahaha.i even dance before her. She looks at me with a look on her face saying, " Have u gone mad."Hahahahaha.i pamper her a lot. I don't know but she never listens to me when I ask her to do something. Maybe a result of over pampering. She keeps licking me and its lovely.One loving lick or one loving glance from her sets everything right when i am sad or worried.and anybody who happens to pass through our street and if they are lucky ,they will surely see laddu cause she runs after bikes and cars.hahahhaahha. She is a lot like me in every aspect ,except that she loves non-veg. She starts drooling at the sight of non-veg.hahahahha. She doesn't eat food when its rice with vegetables. So, I grind the rice, curry . Then I mix it with milk and then I feed her with my hand. Again she is forced to eat. She keeps spitting sometimes but I keep feeding her.hahhaha. When I feed her, the mother in me surfaces. In a way Laddu has made me more responsible. I keep saying sweet words and then I remove deshti and I wash her mouth. After feeding her I feel happy. i do all the baby talking with her. when she is sleeping most of the times she keeps part of her tongue out.i cant resist and i touch it,its so cute. Sometimes i keep humming sweet little tunes while she is sleeping.
Sometimes I just sit near her and I keep looking at her,completely lost in her. She is naughty and graceful at the same time. She is beautiful adorable adorable. When she is sleeping I sit near her and I just feel her breath on my hands. It's wonderful. It's strange but I feel very happy doing that. All I feel is that, I am blessed being with her. She is a wonderful companion. love you laddu.
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