missing link

Having them completely lost from my memory ..I met them today in the train simply by chance. They are a beautiful family, so happy together. It was really good to see them again.

They are the neighbors at my Professor’s [Dr. Rattay] place. Last time when I went to visit Dr. Rattay they were visiting her too. And we got all of us acquainted…

I was standing by the window and could see the whole family trudging along the lawn into the house. The father carrying his two younger kids followed by the mother and behind them the rest three kids. They have their eldest daughter and then four sons. Yes aren’t they impressive?

I had wanted to write a post that very day but couldn’t. Let me take it up today. They are a very interesting couple, really young and lively people. They pale every other family I have known in Europe. He is a German and she is a French. They met in London, fell in love and got married. And to talk about the languages they speak… English, French and German alluding to every detail. Even the children [except the youngest, he doesn't speak yet] made picture-perfect expressions in all three. Well may be it is good to have cross-country parents.

When I saw them today ..it was the same awe gripping me as a child. Nothing changed. Don’t know what did I expect to change. And the fact that they carry the kids in their arms makes them all the more likable. This is something I don’t see often in Munich. Things are way easy now with prams. It is an amazing number the number of prams I see in Munich.

Fathers are wonderful and being one must be a much stronger feeling. Being in his father’s arms must be the safest of the places for that kid. Sad they didn’t travel long with me and got out a few stops earlier. He walked off HOLDING his lady in the other hand and the other four kids followed. I know I am hopelessly trying to draw all those family ties here ..perhaps the day when I have children [:D].

Later today as if to smitten the nice morning, a friend at work got a call from home saying his father has passed away. Love and one’s presence are the only links to handle family ties. And it hits hard to think of the missing link in his life… all was well and good until this morning. His father had had a sudden heart attack!