Heartfelt

Dear Us,

I could not find a better day than revealing all my love for the family which is huge and and every inch is made of love , sacrifice , truth , values and an undying bond. We often tie knots around wrists expecting our brothers to take care of us and protect us. We tie knots around our younger brothers expecting we will protect them always . Every member of family shares a brother or sister somewhere.

 I find the relationships that we share have become fragile over the period of time . People fight and the consequences are to bared  by the younger ones. Time passes by and one really do not know what has been happening in one and other's lives. We get separated on our doings . Pandemics take the broth away,  decreased flow of money create voids and incapabilities of not understanding someone creates miscommunication and never ending fights. Is it always so difficult to just let go . To let go things we cannot solve , to let go the possibilities that we might never be together again , let go the worried and untouched future of the next generation and let's not gift our offsprings the unloved life not having cousins around.

We pledge every rakhi, we spread love every rakhi , we honour and respect our closed ones , we laugh and share the purest moments , we reminiscence old days and everyone related to it , we miss and call for our elders who left us and passed away , their teachings and their values. But it happens on this day only. 

My maternal grandmother , passed away in peace with every member of the family around her . Those were the days when things were right on place and no one stood on edge.  The world sing songs of the unity we have and the love everyone looks us upon. The family tree and every root of it counts . 

Rakhi is still pure and could never be corrupted , there are still stories and memories we have to put through needle and sew them .  Let's pledge again for the same sake of our family , for the same love of us, for the same values we all inherited , for the same elder and younger ones , for the same laughter we shared . 

" Not so broken things, 

can still be mended.

We are far at miles,

can still be closer.

Time is tough!

but we could make it easy. 

Cousins to cousins 

we will always be

Blood to blood will always stick together 

 because family we are from the same watered roots.

Forget what was never in our hands,

forgive for we have that power

Accept in what is best for everyone

and Love again because it is gift 

Once gone will never make us same again.