Kisko dhoondti hain aakhen ???

It was another Sunday, when Sarita as per her weekly routine got ready to go to the temple. It has been 11 months since she shifted to this city of temples, and didn’t even realized it, ofcourse time flies…

It has become a routine for her to go to this temple every Sunday. She likes going there. Journey to the temple is another story… Changing the auto three times and early in the morning listening to the autowala’s shouting for their destination. Some how over the months she has got used to this city and its ways. She loves to watch the varied people heading to the temple. Everyone with wishes and dreams, praying to the almighty.

The temple is famous for mariage, that’s what Sarita thinks, since every week she gets to witness a couple getting married. Its so nice to see the temple bubbling with people. Multicoloured sarees all combinations available. Ladies nicely wearing the gajra walking in with their husbands or Girl friend and boy friend praying to the goddess for her blessing to be together…

People giving pradikshina ( rounds ) of the temple. Her Sunday morning has started to be very very beautiful… All around something or the other going on right from kids playing to people praying to newly married or to be married taking blessing. From coconuts to flowers to lemon to all archana. Taking bibhuti and kumkum to just closing eyes and seeking HER.

But in between all this Sarita searches for someone, not today but every Sunday…. Her eyes keep wondering from corner to corner… but she never finds… What is it that she is looking around for.??? And then she tells herself, he is not here…. Yes she thinks about Arun, someone she truly misses… Whenever she enters the temple she feels and dreams to come to the temple with Arun wearing a silk pattu ( saree) and taking the blessing of the Goddess and then Arun applying her the kumkum as the blessing, giving the pradikshina with him…

Every time she enters the temple she misses him,… When she sees the couple there she feels empty…. But then just prays to the goddess and questions Kyun dhoondti hain meri aakhen usse??? Kahan hai woh???