Sounds

 I was taking a nap (the most important part of my day) and woke up hearing really wierd noises. Something like twinges, growls and pings. When i found out what it was, i could not help but go back to my childhood. We lived in this sprawling compound full of coconut trees swishing and swaying in the breeze. The sounds from my childhood are shouts from us kids, running to catch a "chor", blowing the whistle if one was a "ploice", the bang of a "dabba" when it was thrown for dabba aispice (no not wrong spelling, thats how we pronounced it). Sometimes when we were not feeling that boisterous and rampageous, we would sit around telling stories. Mostly scary ones, involving murderous vengeful ghosts. and i remember at one such time, the wind was playing noise effects, swaying and wooing like a banshee, keeping tune with the scary story, and one branch (technically a leaf ) from a really tall palm tree, fell zooming down and hit me smack, right on my thigh. Since it was the high point of the scary story and we were all going oooh and aahh with round eyes and tingling ears, and I lept up in pain and fear and the others in total alarm.i think the younger ones scampered straight off till they reached their homes.
Compared to our childhood sounds, I got up hearing my son's childhood sounds. Pings and shouts of "die" and virtual football screams. Nope! i am not complainging or bemoaning the fact that our childhood was better than theirs. I am only comparing sounds.
I dont know about others, but i love the sound of "hugs". There are so many different types of hugs, tight ones, loving ones, mom to baby ones, consolatory ones, passionate, the"i have yet not forgiven u" hug! and each of them have a sound. Soft gentle sounds which make u feel good and make your heart beat warm, passionate ones which make your blood run, loving ones which calm you down. They all have sounds, soft, squishy, crunchy, delightful sounds.
I cannot talk about sounds and not talk about Oreo, our beagle pup. He rushes to you like a bullet, leaps up and starts thrusting his tongue out in a lusty rush to lick your face. And the sounds he emits while doing so are hilarious. Moans, groans and insistent mutters.
Kanak once wrote- "silence is a sound". It was too profound. and i realise this when the electricity fails and we are left with no lights, not fans and a stillness which translate to a sound. it buzzes in our ear.
Sounds are our inner peace and agitation.