Rakhi

This was an essay I had written for a friends little daughter for her school competition last year. Thought Rakhi is an apt time to put it up on my page too. To the lovely bond between brothers and sisters! :)


Hi Brother,

Don’t get surprised on receiving this email. You know your sister better than that. It seems like I met you a year or back so… whereas it not even 40 hours since we parted.

Somehow, different time zones, different countries .. The time I left on is doing that to me.
I still don’t believe how stupid the travel agent could be by mixing up the dates of my departure.. Causing me to miss Rakhi.

Suddenly, all the years of our growing up & togetherness is hitting me. You remember the times when we used to be our back up for each other in tuition? Or when with that modest pocket money we used to buy b’day gifts for each other…or...the time when....oh well, there are just so many times to remember between us!

London’s cold climate makes me feel even more cold & makes me want to run back to India.. I don’t know why females need to go away from the people that they love the most.. Fathers, mothers, brothers, etc….Maybe the jet lag is making me sound more sad so. But I can’t help regretting I had to part from u just 3 days before Rakhi.

Am I sounding like a sad record form the sad songs that you absolutely hate on my iPod? You better not say that..coz tomorrow when I call you India time for Rakhi, I better see a somber mood on you. & yes, that means I hope you have fixed up the web cam, so that I can See you as well!!

I know if I write any further this letter will definitely go unread. So, before you get any such thought, I’ll say bye.. & you do know how much I miss you brother!
Love & lots of best wishes forever,

Your Sis.

Thank You

Today, the first Sunday of August is celebrated as friendship day the world over.

Now, I've never been for the getting mushy over friends on friendship day Only.. so its as usual a day for me like any else. Though from the last couple of years I do look forward to hear specifically from a couple of friends. [Exceptions are there to every rule..? :P ]

I do ofcourse love my friends [who doesn't?!] as I truly believe its such a wonderful boon to choose friends in our lives... Such a boon to have relations whom we love without any force, any obligation... But yet, I have never felt the need to go shopping for cards & bands & celebrations on this day.

However since the past year or so with more & more friends reconnecting over the Internet, friends are constantly in touch in the virtual world.
Some become so connected, that life seems so good with them in it.
Among intelligent conversations, arguments, mad laughter times & a whole lot of things what normal friends do... we share everything; except the abnormality that most of them are miles & miles away.
Still they stay comfortable snugged within the heart like the old strong wiry creepers who cling to your heart and keep it binded! :)

Today, as since morning my phone has been beeping away with 'happy friendship day' messages &  calls; I have been replying to each & every one of them, wondering that have I really made them happy for them to hold me special?
Thinking more on it made me wanna give into this day's celebration from my side over here.

Here's my small bit of acknowledgement for the wonderful friends that have touched my life & made it beautiful over the years.
Even with distances, arguments, indifference, cold wars, no talks at times... there have been/are moments of laughter, care, understanding, comfort & the realisation of a meaning each relation has brought.

To my most dearest friends, who are an important part of my life:

Thank you All for adding happiness, beauty & value to my life in every way. I cherish each & everyone of you and it goes without saying I am always there.

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