So close to home!!

These are the days, when the leaves would leave their branches and drift down elegantly, swaying in the breeze, landing softly on the ground below.

A school girl, in her school uniform, her bag on her back, returning from school; happy that yet again another day of school is over. She would choose the brownest and the biggest ones, gleeful when she heard the crisp sound of dry leaves.

The school girl, though now grown-up, is back again. In a new country, new surroundings, in her backyard, looking for the brownest and the driest of the mango leaves, gleeful to hear the familiar crisp sound. She is close to home, so close!