The Estranged Stranger

There is this stranger who walks casually. He always keeps a smile for everyone, he has no hatred for anyone. He has this habit of finding goodness in people amidst all conflicts, he naturally gravitates towards goodness in any person. His personality is a combination of generosity, cheerfulness, optimism, reliability, and kindness. He sees innocent kids as God expressing himself to him. Their smile brings him so much of happiness, when he sees a Vinayagar Idol he feels it is his little kid who is smiling at him, so he smiles back at Vinayagar immediately. People just don't understand him, when he smiles at Vinayagar Idol naturally, people look at him strangely even when they have been praying at the same Vinayagar Idol. He does not mind about how people think, he just keeps smiling at his Vinayagar Idol thinking that he is looking at his little kid, sometimes he talks to the kid in the form of the Idol, he expresses his joy through smiles and tears completely to his little kid in the form of the Idol that's when he finds his groove, he forgets the whole world he just goes down to his soul and expresses himself.

He has no kid of his own though, he imagines his Vinayagar is his little kid. He prays to Vinayagar to send him a little kid, whom he will carry in his heart forever. He imagines that he is a green leaf that waits for a tiny snow to land on the leaf and stay there. All snow that falls on the leaf is just running down, he is waiting for a tiny snow to fall on him and stay there with him. He prays to his Lord Vinayagar with complete faith: "Send me this little kid who will stand by me, who will see my heart and soul the way you see it and stay with me forever".

He wanders around smiling, giving gifts to kids and people just to inspire happiness and bring joy and wonder. He hopes to find his little kid one day, so he rejoices in giving secret gifts to kids and people like how Santa Claus surprises Kids during Holiday season but he does this whenever he wants to.

He just tries doing this every single day and goes back to his place and takes his Violin and plays a melancholy, imagining that he is putting his little kid to sleep. He does this before his Lord Vinayagar. For someone who sees this might think "..to whom he is playing this tune?", but to him who has gone into his groove inside his heart and soul feels that his Lord Vinayagar is admiring his tune in the form of his little kid.

The violin is generally considered as an instrument that is more expressive of human emotions. The instrument's dynamics and articulation are controlled directly by the player which allows them to closely mimic the nuances of the human voice. A skilled violinist has a direct control over the instrument as an extension of their own self, thus they infuse subtle emotional shades when they play an melancholy. The art of Violin requires great practice to produce a pleasant tone, it requires delicate bowing techniques and precise finger placements and a mastery control over the strings.

Initially, when the player gets into the groove their emotions flow through the instrument, they can whisper what they cannot communicate verbally through their emotional music production which will move the people hearing the music.

This stranger was good at playing Violin, so he played violin in the evening with all his emotions. He was accompanied by his tea pot which was hanging at the top of three bamboo sticks and was boiling on a charcoal stove, the music made the tea pot's smoke dance and dissolve into the wind. The smoke was dancing and finding its sleep in the form of wind blowing a fine breeze. He was telling to the world, there his Lord Vinayagar exists in the form of his little kid who is capable of seeing past him into his soul, it was his famous tune's rhythm but there was no one who was listening to it, except the tea pot and the smoke from the tea pot, but he plays the music until dark and gets tired and goes to sleep. But, the smoke from tea pot was still dancing to the mesmerizing tune that already stopped and went to sleep, the breeze is still there waiting for more music...,

One day when he was wandering, he had an Apple with him, there was this kid on the corner, he gave that kid the Apple that he had, when the kid was about to grab the Apple he pulled it away from the kid, the kid was excited now that he was a playing a game with the kid, they both were smiling all along and played the hide and seek game with the Apple for sometime and finally the kid got little annoyed was turning back and walking away from him. Now, he apologized and told the kid that it can have the Apple now, the kid ran happily to him and quickly grabbed the Apple from him and laughed at him loudly and this time it was trying to tell him "If you can, take this Apple from me.." He smiled back and said, "No, it is for you, you can keep it.." he was about to leave the place, the kid held his little finger and pulled him down and made him sit and asked him to wait for a while, he did not know why the kid wanted him to wait, but he waited. The kid went inside the house and then came running out with the Apple in it's hand and handed the Apple back to him, he took the Apple and saw there was a big smiling face the kid drew on the Apple using some fruit Jam, and happily said .."this is for you and that is me smiling at you..". He just said "Thank you!!" and smiled at the kid and left the place, but he was reluctant to leave the kid without giving anything, but luckily he had another Apple which he gave that to the kid and said "this is for you and I am smiling to you through this Apple's shine.." , now he left happily.

He took the Apple that kid gave him to his place and kept the Apple with the smiling face in a shelf and smiled at the Apple and started playing his Violin. Again going to the groove thinking of putting his little kid to sleep, it is his Lord Vinayagar sitting beside the Apple and the boiling tea pot performing it's favorite smoke dance to his music as usual.

To him music is always a better communication medium but he never adds words to the music yet they whisper his heart out in the darkness, this time there was a falling star in the long sky, who knew, maybe the star has heard him and fell off.

Like always, he played his Violin saying a thank you for his God and slept off.

In his dream, he saw the little kid who was smiling at him and calling him Papa I am here for you, I won't leave you do not worry. The little kid was touching his forehead and saying these words to him. He was crying in Joy, the tears flew down his eye lids, the kid wiped it and said "Do not cry Papa, I am here only".

He wakes up for the next day, the morning sun shines bright on him. He placed his Violin in table, the sun shines through the strings of the Violin and he hears beautiful music that naturally brought tears in his eyes, he was in so much joy by that music, since he preferred music over words, the music communicated to him this "We are here for you, We won't leave you, We will be with you always, We see your soul, We hear your music, We include you, We accept you, We know you can do stupid things like trying to pull the sky down for us but we don't want that from you, We just want you, so we are here, Are you Happy!! At last you are wanted...!?" When this music stopped, he was uncontrollable in his happy tears, he slightly lifted his head to see 2 little sparrows dancing on the strings of the Violin playing this music. When they saw him looking at them, they flew right onto his shoulders with a big smile.

He knew, that his Lord Vinayagar who has taken the form of there little sparrows and flew right onto his shoulders. He immediately tilted his head towards his Vinayagar Idol and said a Thank you!, there the stylish Vinayagar was smiling to him through the Apple the little kid gave him the previous day.

He prayed please bless these little sparrows, let them be happy and protected give them a family to cherish let me hold their kids and carry them as well on my shoulders. Please bless my sparrows. Please God bless my kids that you sent me. My Lord Vinayaga, Grant these kids happiness, health, and all their heart's desires. Bless them with beautiful children, keep them safe, Let their family flourish in Joy and prosperity.

While he was praying, the little sparrows were ordering him to get up and prepare them the breakfast and each one was asking a different dish and already starting to convince them saying "Okay, I am going to prepare both the dishes for you" Before he gets up they started to place their order for lunch and dinner, he agreed and smiled at them, now they changed their mind for the breakfast, he was surprised and looked at his Vinayagar, His stylish Vinayagar was smiling at him and was replying to him stating.. "..this is what you asked for right? Have fun!!" He replied, "Yes my Lord, this is going to be fun....I still have space on my shoulders to also hold the kids of these little sparrows.. come on Lord.. please give us more fun...let us live it fully.."