Nativity

<p>As a kid, when I was studying in residential school,one of my senior asked me a question “where are you from?”  Villupuram,I replied.Oh!then which is your native place then, was the next question,I didn’t know.After 2 weeks when my parents came to visit me,I asked my father about my nativity,He said it is a small town in Maharashtra,later reported to the senior about my nativity,and his next question was,why did your father  come to Tamilnadu then.Next visit-I settled in Tamilnadu for my business ,but native is my town because that is the place where I was born and that is where I have friends,relatives said my father.End of the story.Now recently one of my patient asked me which is my native,without a thought I said it is Villupuram,though I wasn’t born here,major part of my life was spent here and rest of my life is gonna be here.My friends are here and so are my memories ,I hardly have memories of my father’s native.Native is not the place where we are born,but it is where we have friends and memories.</p>