Siblings Forever..:)

On this day, I think of all the days because of which this day is so special to me. When I was a teenager, brother (that too ELDER) was the most dreaded word in my dictionary. He was the creature who snoops into your room and refuses to understand the meaning of the word “privacy”. He reads your locked private diaries, listens in to your conversations with all your friends and fills in your parents on what they were about without even censoring it. He is the one who glares at all your male friends and also at your female friends to know more about the male ones. Then I think I was too young to completely understand the depth of this relationship, it was just about who scores over the other in our incessant fights. Over the years which we spent under our parent’s roof, the trials which we went through as a family and the times when we looked out for each other just like siblings should, strengthened our bond and brought us closer. Though, these years never stopped his snooping around among my stuff (specifically, my cell phone..Humph!) but the fights became more and more civilized with each passing year :).We grew up.

Then, another milestone came in our relationship when he got married and I got a wonderful sister-in-law who had all the good things of a sibling without the bad ones. She didn’t interfere, but she made sure that she was there when you needed her and couldn’t say so. She didn’t tease you about all the good food she had, instead she cooked them especially for you. She is the one with whom you share a knowing exasperated glance when you see your brother flaunting his new watch, telling his tales or making funny faces to irritate you. She is the one who sends him to my room to cheer me up when I am angry with him for shouting on me and also the one who makes him realize that the other dress would look better on me than the one he has “painstakingly” selected. She came in our household and became an integral part of it. 

On this day, I just want to tell you both that I love you guys and thanks for being there for me always.

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”- George Moore