YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, MY ONLY SUNSHINE!

For all those people who knew me till a year back, had an idea about my fear around dogs. I could not stand them and would always run away if I spot them. Friends having pets would be compelled to lock them in a separate room so I could sit peacefully without shrieking and yelling. What changed a year back? My sister being a pet lover always wanted to have a pet since childhood but mum had reservations so we never had one. Well, my human loves and adores pets, he too for a long time wanted to have one. So last year during this time when my sister got two cute little 21 days old mixed breed puppies, the expression on my bestie’s face melted my heart and for his happiness we got home our little bundle of joy ‘Papya’ who changed my life since then.

Most of you love his name and while my nephews had named him Bruno as he was brown in colour, the name ‘papya’ came from my bestie’s nephew Ronan (2 yrs old), who was actually trying to address him as a puppy but he cutely uttered the word ‘Papya’ and at that moment we decided our precious one would be called ‘PAPYA’ from now. A girl, who would always run away from this specie, was now finding it difficult to stay away from him even for a minute. He brought me the happiness, which can never be expressed, in words. I don’t even know when did the guards drop down and I embraced every moment I felt while watching him grow. All the fear, inhibitions and concerns just transformed into joy, happiness and fulfillment. These flurry selfless creatures teach us so many things.

Papya has played a crucial role at different phases in this last one year. He has the most intense and deep eyes that speak just when you need to hear something different and not the usual that is going on in your head. He replaced stress with smile, worries with warmth and everything else in between with his woofs. Papya is my heart that beats outside and he has unknowingly made me experience the feeling of being a mother. For me, I always felt the motherly instinct wouldn’t kick in but today; papya for me is my child born not from my womb but from my soul. He is as flesh and blood of me like any human child would have been. I am lucky and blessed to have him in my life. 

This heartfelt post is incomplete without the man ‘BESTIE’ who got the guards down and introduced me to a world, which I was afraid to walk into a year back. I am a non-conformist person when it comes to relationships apart from my parents but papya is my heartbeat and never can I imagine a day without him. He is important and significant in ways he would ever know as he completes two individuals who are destined to be free and independent in their lives. Papya is an umbilical cord connecting us, which is breathing life, and all the positive energy in our little world.

 

Thank you to the almighty for blessing me with this special soul and my sister for giving my human and me our own special sunshine. Happy Birthday son and here's wishing you a super healthy life and may you get one extra year from my life on your every birthday.