My Best Friend

Sarvesh makes me all time busy. Sometimes I felt like jobless, but he provides me so many jobs – a teacher, a chef, trainer, beautician, judge and so on. Initially one week I didn’t go out because I don’t like this place, only for Sarvesh’s priceless love for his dad, we came to Chicago. Whatever it is, wherever it is, for me heaven is always TamilNadu. I didn’t even imagine that I am going to be here for so long time and I am able to adapt to this new environment.

For any new place, it is very difficult for me and Sarvesh to settle down. But with so many conditions, he made up his mind that he has to be alone for some days. Slowly we started settled down, but its very difficult for him to forget about his grandma and grandpa- whom he used to play all time in Chennai. Because of Sarvesh I got new parents, his grandparents are my neighbor; they always consider Sarvesh as their own grandson. Sarvesh told me some stories about his grandparents. After hearing all the stories only I realized that how badly I missed all those occasions.

We play cricket, blow bubbles, painting colors, reading stories, writing alphabets and numbers, watching some interesting kids’ activities in youtube, watching Tamil movies, cooking some yummy foods, talking to his grandparents and roaming here and there. Finally we got to know some Tamil families in our locality. He got lot of friends to play, but winter season is the only worst part that makes him not comfortable to go out and play.

Some interesting activities make me so happy and felt like sarvesh is my best friend. With the worst climate I was sick for so many days; he helped me for so many small activities. Sarvesh’s  love gives me more strength. Whenever I cough, he asks me to take yellow color syrup and if I say that my stomach pains, he asks me to drink more water, whatever I do, he involves himself into that activity. I felt so happy that he cares me so much more than my dad.  These three months I felt like i have been loved so much by my son, for every sentence, he includes Mummy instead of Daddy. For the past 3 years, I felt so bad that he is not so attached to me and he never allows me to sleep behind him.

He talks and asks me so many questions, One day we both were watching a song (oru ponnu onnu na parathaen) from the film – kushi – he usually watched that song because he likes the toy characters which comes at the end of the song. He asks me who is that lady dancing with Vijay, I told him that is actor Surya’s wife Jothika, so that he won’t ask me next question. Suddenly, he asks me “she should dance with Surya right? Why she is dancing with Vijay”.

We went to Walmart to buy gift for his birthday, we searched some good toy car for him, he also finds some cars, whatever Car toy he took, its more costly, so we told him “Please Sarvesh take some other toy”, It took nearly 45 minutes to search a good toy for him. Then he says “Enna Mummy ethu eduthalum kasu kasu nu solaringae, neengalae edukangae nan eduka maetaen” (Whatever I take, you say its cost more, so better you take some car toy I won’t choose anything).

Daily evening, Sarvesh learns and write spelling for words, but he eagerly wants to know the spelling for Cars, Mcqueen, Mac, Angry birds, Power rangers, Chota Bheem, Batman, Toy Story, ice age and so on. Then only I realize how he is addicted to all the games, so I encouraged him to learn the spelling of the words that he likes most. He never likes to talk in English, if I talk and Hari talks, he says “Please Mummy, you know Tamil and I know Tamil, then Why you are talking in English”, Its very difficult for me to make him understand the importance of communicating in English, so I make him watch more Animation movies, then slowly he is so much interested to learn some basic sentences and ask me meaning for each new word he hears. He watch new movie and at night I ask him the story, he makes me sleep by telling the story. It’s a nice experience watching him narrating the story, but worst part is, he asks me again what he told, that’s very difficult to answer. It makes me remember that how I torture my friends by asking questions on the stories I told them.

For him, learning is a fun activity, he never takes learning as so serious, I watched that how he learns to write small letters, he also confuse his dad and laughs and distracts, he knows to write but he is not interested to do it. His dad asks him to write letter “b” but that ends up drawing an apple, he wrote “b” and “d” at the right side, and thus ends up drawing an apple.

Life with Sarvesh at the early stages makes me feel that my life is made up of Joy and happiness every day. never thought that I will get a best friend like him, and I wish this continues throughout my life. For me it’s very difficult to share his love even to his dad. Sometimes he annoys me more by asking more question and never behaves like a four year old son, so I shouted at him, for some hours, he won’t come to me , but after some time, I will go and ask “Sorry Sarvesh”, he says very cool, “that’s ok Mummy, I won’t cry”. That minute I felt like heaven, how he understands me, he never disturbs me anytime if I seems to be so busy, he asks “Mummy, can you play with me for some time, I feel so bored pleaseeee”  He knows two words to make us cool when he understands that me and Hari is not in a good mood- Sorry and Please. And now understand my biggest strength and my best friend is always my Sarvesh, no one can be so caring like him.