BasketBall Diaries - A Prologue

Year 1996: Sandy gets married to a malyali gal his parents find for him :) The wedding reception becomes the first one to be held at DRDO Open air theater. The ceremony was split into two days just to accommodate the mad rush of people just like how we used to have super hit movies played for two consecutive days so that everyone gets to watch the movie. The first day for family and the second for friends. There were posters all over Drdo with an "All are Invited" tag attached ;) This wedding seemed like a fairytale:) ok ok.. now lets get back to reality...

Year 1998: After two years of marriage the Sandy's have their first child, a cute little boy. They name him Baskey(weird name huh??). Once Baskey came into their life, the Sandy's lives changed for the good. Sandy so loved Baskey that he could just not stay away from Baskey even for a few minutes. Four years passed by with Sandy and Baskey falling so much in love with each other that they could never be separated. Then there was a twist in their tale...

Year 2002: The Sandy's now have their second child again a baby boy. The parents are overwhelmed with joy. Sandy names him "Footie"(now the name might start sounding familiar na??). As Footie grew up, Sandy now started to give more attention to Footie than Baskey. Never had Sandy imagined before that he could actually give someone else more preference than his dear Baskey. But thats what was happening. Footie was getting most of Sandy's love and affection. Sandy made sure he didnt make Baskey feel left out all this while. Nevertheless the truth was that Sandy knew deep inside that his love for Footie is overshadowing his love for dear Baskey. How much ever he wanted to, he could never do justice to Baskey since he spent most of his time with Footie. Slowly slowly Baskey was moving out of Sandy's life because Footie had made such a big impact in Sandy's life and they almost had become inseperable. For the next SIX years Baskey took the back seat in Sandy's life and let Footie hog all the limelight. Baskey was never completely out of the picture these six years but never for once did Baskey get the first priority ahead of Footie. Sandy always felt guilty of ignoring Baskey even though he loved him so much, but a choice had to be made then and Footie was the choice he made. For Six years Baskey patiently waited, not once complaining, not once feeling jealous, not once fighting with Footie. He knew someday Sandy will rediscover his love for him.

Year 2009: Sandy still does not have answers for how? why? he got back to Baskey. Probably it was just that he started spending a little more time with Baskey now. He then started to slowly realize how big a part of his life Baskey once was and how he truly missed Baskey all these years when he was right in front of his eyes, but he could never really make it count. Footie also had grown older now and was old enough to manage himself. So as of today Sandy had rediscovered his love for Baskey. Whats going to happen from here on is anybody's guess :)

Sandy realized that these were just phases of life, where he never could actually give equal attention and importance to two people how ever much he loved and cared for them. So he needed to make his choices and he definitely is not regretting it. At the end of the day if he's able to spend enough time with his loved once even though he has to divide his time between them, he still is content and happy. And he will remain a passionate father ;)