The Recherché Ink. So Very Precious :)

Every year, in this month, as I open the most awaited envelop, I find the same two things. It excites me even more as I don't expect it any time. Those couple of threads, wrapped inside a sheet of paper, stapled as pedantically as one can do it and manoeuvred beautifully with all the worldly care, reach me with lot of anticipations from both the  sender and the receiver. 

To start with, I want to put in almost the same kind of effort and care to pull out those staple pins,  as put in to make this packet. As I go along and finally manage to open it, I find that the effort was hardly anything as compared to that of the sender or perhaps I purposefully didn't want to belittle those efforts - which has all the worldly love in them. I unfold the paper thereon and I find those two strings for which I wait so eagerly every year. 

This indeed is very special but at the same time the most expected thing by a brother during the time of Raksha Bandhan. Isn't it? Now, what makes this more special and precious every time, is the letter which wraps these threads under them. The very presence of the letter drowns you in those amazing and adorable feelings at the first place. It's embellished with those hand written pearls which engulf all the universal love inside them. The whole page is suffused with that care and concern which you can think of and leaves you to savour those eternal feelings for the rest of your life. This feeling lingers there for long, long enough to make you feel so very special. It makes you deliberate on the relationships you share with the sender who is your adorable and the most lovable little sister. She sneaks out time from her busy schedule to pick her pen up and write what she thinks about you, to put down all her care and love for you in that white sheet and makes you realize that how so important and loving you are to someone. 

What made me put this up here is the age we are in when people don't have time even for their loved ones - leave apart friends. At the first place, being very optimistic, we wait for those e-mails from them. To take those hopes further we decide to get content with those smses. Eventually we feel very lucky if one of them knock your door finally. In such a time, when you are sure of receiving these letter-gems every year, from your loved ones, you give wings to your emotions, as I did. 

Each time, I open that letter, I feel so special reading what "Chaand" - my sister - wants to say to me and expects from me and each of those times, I take out my handkerchief to wipe out my tears dropped on those words written over the letter saying "Miss you Bhaiya and Love you so much". 

I fold the letter, put it inside and say it loud - Love you too so very much Chaand and Manu (Mr Lil Bro). You both are just everything to me. :)

Some Random Thoughts........... :)

Its amazing to see grown ups behaving like kids sometimes ! Such a sight today, further strengthened the idea of living your present to the fullest in me. Who knows - Kal Ho na Ho :). Further to add... We should never kill the kid within ourselves. He teaches you to be carefree when you try being sincere, To be mischievous when you try being matured. He brings fun in life which we often tend to lose living our lives with all the worldly tensions. Trust me! This is how life actually moves. Be a kid, live a funny life :)



An incipient love expects explicit expressions...But as it matures, things go tacit way. Gestures say a lot. You don't need Billet-douxs, flowers or those daily good night kisses. A "Hi" over the phone delivers a lot more than what THOSE 3 words used to express.....Feelings ooze out more often. Understanding strengthens further and you put the phone over the cradle saying nothing great but just with those lovely and adorable hallucinations to follow :)

A Red 'DOT' Kiss!! Too "Hypocrite" to Resist Afterall.

Disclaimer: The letter below should not be deemed offensive in any manner, as the thoughts expressed in it were being very naively nurtured in my brain for quite a long time and finally they found their way out today in the same naive way through this sacrosanct message to God - The Almighty, without any intention of inflicting any kind of malice on my "Meat" loving friends out there. This just vents out my genuine feelings in open. Anyone is free to comment on the same with all the worldly freedom :)

Dear Almighty,

Since the time I have come to Goa, every single day so far, I have seen all kind of fishes, chickens, prawns, lobsters, crabs,....Wait a minute...List seems to be eternal - So, rather I should say - the complete animal kingdom you have created so far - being savored by my fellas on each of the dining tables I had my meals on. Well! That's indeed a splendid spectacle. They are the non vegetarian friends of mine. I respect their appetite and the avid love they possess for their innocent kingdom mates. Wait a Minute! Are you......? Nooo! Not at all! They are not like that as you think they are. Please Lord! Now who says they are bad? Woe Be'tide to those who feel or say so!! After all they are the part of the food chain and are certainly adhering to the theories and rules proposed by all the Darwins born in this world so far.

Here, I must tell you about one very important and adorable trait you are missing in them. They are very religious souls. They have full faith and an irrefutable belief in you - Yes! The God yourself. O Almighty, in this 21st century,where on earth you will find so many followers, when its brimming with atheists all around? You should be proud of these true devotees of yours. So what, if they stuff their tummies with Butter Chickens? How does it matter if they gormandize those delicious Rogan Joshes and Kababs as soon as they get served on the table? What difference does it make if they don't spare any single chance to grab their favorite palatable Crabs, kill them, rip their shells off from their body and relish their curries with a divine satisfaction, remembering you at the same time with extreme sense of culinary satisfaction?

Yes. I outrightly refute all the allegations you make against my friends on the basis of the above points. BECAUSE - O Lord! The Almighty! You would be moved by the disclosure which is going to come now - Today is Maha Shivratri! Your day, God - and you would be glad to know that my friends are fasting - Just having some leafy stuff - that's what they call a veg food - indeed a big deal for them. Also guess what? Yes! no non veg cuisine in the college mess. You are ought to appreciate that fortitude, Lord. No, its not a once in a while affair. Some of my mates fast on Tuesdays too (For The Hanuman Ji in you) and wait - Some on Thursdays too(For one of the abc God's in you). Ya. Trust me! Now are you convinced with the fact that how justified they are in having a perfect diet they have?

Don't be so rude O Lord! Are you trying to call them hypocrites? Well! I must not object to all your opinions. I am in the good list of yours. Don't want to tarnish my image for sure. Wink ;). But Hey! You have to consider my plea. You ain't that bad. Are you?

Do consider their considerations they make while grabbing a "RED DOTTED" food can. They just can't resist the temptation. But they do. They do it for you, O Lord! And you call them hypocrites? Huh. So Rude of you! :(