The hall burst out into applause as I finished hitting the last notes on my piano, the echo of the applause kept reverberating inside for some time. It had been an awesome performance and the reaction of the audience was giving proof to that. This was a dream come true for me , an auditorium full of audience applauding after my piano recital, what a day, one that I had waited for a long time". Mamon wake up quickly or you will miss your school bus and you will then have to run after it till the next stop." My mother's voice doubled up as an alarm clock for me,my dream was broken and I was back into reality, Where was my piano? Where was the auditorium? And where was the audience?
I started getting out of bed slowly, all the time thinking to myself why did I always have the same dream, the same grand piano, the same auditorium and the same loud echo of the audience applauding. Was it a mechanism my sub-conscious had employed to make me aware that I now wanted to be the owner of a Grand Piano. I had to tell this to my mother, but wait what would I tell? That I wanted to play a piano? The one that I saw in my dreams was so big, it would never fit into our living room...hmmm...wait a second....maybe if I could convince my mother to move all the furniture out of the living room, then we could fit a big piano. The problem now was how to approach my mother to buy me a piano....yes I knew what I would do....I would ask it as a birthday gift....smart isnt it.
I started dragging my feet towards the kitchen, my mother was standing with her back towards me, busy packing our lunch boxes. "Maa, I was thinking.....", I started, "there is no time to think now, hurry up and take the shower and get into your school dress, never seen a lazy bone like you ", replied my mother before I could complete. "Maa, listen please, I have been thinking and I wanted to tell you, I want a GUITAR for my birthday " ( WHAT?? I had blurted out a GUITAR instead of a PIANO, what was my sub-conscious doing? replacing a PIANO with a GUITAR).
"Get ready for school quickly and we will discuss more about this in the evening " was my mother's reply, the whole day at school I could not concentrate on anything , my mind kept jumping between PIANO and GUITAR, I could not decide. Well a guitar seemed more practical,I could carry it easily, I knew there was a music school teaching guitar near my home, and it would not need any furniture to be moved. But what about my dream ? Only time will tell :)
My mother was waiting for me at the door of our home when I came back from school in the evening. "Mamon, your Baba and I have decided that you can have a guitar for your birthday but you will have to promise that you will learn to play it till the end, you will not discontinue your guitar classes like you discontinued your classical dance class ". I was thrilled,I am going to have my own musical instrument, I could not believe. "Maa, thank you so much, I promise I will learn till the end, I will play it beautifully you will see, I promise I will ". I had made the promise to my mother that day....but did I keep my promise....did I finish all my music classes? (...... to be continued )
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