A Friend For Eternity...

Remember all the times you go to your native place for a function and meet all of your relatives? Especially those far off relatives like your mom’s sister’s husband’s brother’s son’s father-in law? They often come to you and throw really stupid and annoying questions. The most commonly faced one is “remember me? The last time I saw you, you were just a year old.” DUH! I don’t remember what I ate last night and you expect me to remember things that happened 15 years ago???
But this time when I went to my native, people asked me and my sis a different question. “Are you both twins?” they pointed at me and my sis. I had to explain them that my sis was five and a half yrs older to me. . Not one, not two but every alternate person asked us this question. After a while I got annoyed.
But just a few minutes back, I was looking at a picture of me and my sis and to my surprise I did find a few similarities in us. We have the same eyes, the same chubby cheeks, and the same face cut! I then, started counting the similarities in our characteristics. God fearing, silly, funny, people loving and so much more. It’s just that she is an introvert and I’m an extrovert.
We went to electronics’ showroom a few days ago and I realized that we had the same liking as well! Both of us liked the same digicam and disliked mom’s idea of buying a fruit juicer!
All this while when people said that we are alike I protested and said that we are different. But now I realize that we are ‘differently alike’. It’s like the waves and the shore…both are different elements of the sea but construct the beauty of the sea. And both cannot exist in each other’s absence.
I remember mocking my sis saying that I’ll be the happiest person if she’d get married and leave. But now my conscience hurts me for lying. I don’t know where I’d be without her. At this point I remember what my closest buddy sandhya said once, “You do not understand the value of the greatest asset you have until you loose it.” But I’m happy to realize the truth beforehand.
This is a very personal article. It’s a tribute I pay to my greatest asset (though the word is too small to describe you.) you have made my day, made my world, made ‘me’. I have always looked up to you not only as a sis and a guide, but also as a friend, for all eternity. I take the privilege to proclaim to the world that I love you, more than any worldly creature. I have a lot of emotions to exhibit. Love, gratitude, shame, pride, for all that you have done for me I have done merely anything.
I don’t think my sis will ever come across this article. And I wont let her know about all of this either. I’ll be the same old I-don’t-give-it-a-damn Pavithra. But somewhere beyond these words, papers and pens she knows my love for her and loves me too…