Cheeku,
Remember you had given me ‘Hitch-hikers Guide to the Universe’? I tried to read through it because you had recommended it to me and to so many others. I read a few pages here and there and laughed and gave up. I told you to read that book you needed to have a ‘fantastic’ state of mind.
Little did I know that you would be using the Guide for your journey through the universe so soon, beta. It has been one year since you started on your journey through the universe. And every night I look out at the dark sky and amongst the stars I try to find that blazing space craft that is taking you to places I can’t even dream of. In one year you would have travelled so far from this world. I wish I had read the Guide and was travelling with you on that space craft of yours.
I wish there was some way of hearing your voice, that there was some phone that would ring and I would suddenly hear your voice say ‘Hi Dad, I am well’. That you would tell me about all the worlds that you have visited…
You remember Cheeku we had gone to the ISRO Observatory at Mount Abu and we had seen all the rings of the Saturn? You must have passed those and many more worlds. Why don’t you write to me, why don’t you call me and tell me about all the places you have seen?
You were always so prompt in responding to my emails, calling me back unlike Tubby. But now I just don’t hear from you…
I miss hearing your voice, I miss your sms saying “call’, I miss talking to you, I miss holding you…I miss you Cheeku.
Dad