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. :)