Happy Birthday Sis

You are one of the greatest gifts in my life. Of course, you know who are the other greatest gifts in my lifeJ… There are innumerable things that we have done together as friends, as sisters, as 2 close buddies, name it whatever it hardly makes a difference!!!!!

There are feelings which cannot be put in words probably because my vocabulary is bad, but I bet even those with best vocabulary cannot put all the feelings that I have for you… As you rightly said, I am an extremely emotional person. May be, but I know you have loved me for that… Secretly I have heard what you had to tell about me to my other closets people in my life…

I remember those initial days where you were not close to me at all. I didn’t care much either then. Slowly when we started feeling the need for each other, we have lived our life. Those childhood days, those summer holidays, those beach experience at native, those golden play on the street of Guttahalli, those days where we went window shopping in commercial street, those days when we went to meet your friends in Jayanagar, everything is still afresh in mind… we have truly lived our life. As & when I am writing this, Golden play brings back lots of memory & lots of people flash through my mind. I am sure you remember them too & if they happen to read this blog of mine, I am more than sure, they will re-live those moments too…this is making me nostalgic.

I sit back & think, what is common between us. Except the word “SISTER” between us, there is nothing truly common between us. You love chocolates. I probably did in earlier days, but I gave up my chocolates so that you can eat all of them. I remember the 1^st time you told me, when you were brought home for the 1^st time, only thing that bothered me is that I have to share chocolates with her. Well, I value you more than chocolates, so I gave up chocolates. Now, I cannot eat them even if I want to!!! You like coffee, & I cannot even stand the thought of drinking the kind of coffee you drink. You love sweets, but I love those junks which you don’t like. Thank god, we are this way, else we would probably landed up fighting for food also…Can you even imagine that??

We have fought about various things in life. Starting from dresses, which I used to preserve for some occasion & you would not only use it, wear it, but also tear it. It irritated me, but the smile you had after wearing my dress would make me forgive you. Well, only thing I used consciously is your books which in true term means 2^nd hand books. But I loved them too. There are days which you made me feel rejected in life, but there are equally good number of days in which you made me feel wanted. There are days when we laughed over things non-stop, there are also equal number of days where we have cried non-stop for sometimes silly & sometimes not so silly reasons.

From sisters, we moved on to become very close friends. From love to possessiveness to obsessive, I have had all the feelings for you. I know lot of days you chose someone else over me & you still do, probably you have a good enough reason for that. But there are few days that you chose me too J

You have always broken your promises to me. You have tried lying to me a lot of times. I have hated you for those moments, but when you just smile or have a small droplet of tears I forget all those & the warm hug from you makes me feel at the top of the world.

You have taken my dresses, but you have also got me some precious things. Like you were mentioning even yesterday evening to our neighbors, I should also praise you for those good things that you do & not just blame you for bad things ;) J So here you go… you were the 1^st one to get me “Jeans”, that I always wanted to wear. You were the 1^st one to get me that Kinetic Honda, that I always wanted to ride, you were the 1^st to get me that desktop @ home, that I always wanted to possess (do you remember volume control incidence in the computer shop??? Wink wink ;)) you have done a lot of things to me.

Before kids, whenever in any gathering I had to talk about “MYSELF”, my introduction would go with my name & what I was currently doing then, with the next immediate sentence would be “I have a WONDERFUL sister :)” Yes, there is a stress on Wonderful!!! So now you know why all my school/college & earlier colleagues speak about you & enquire about you as soon as they see me, even before they enquire about me!!!

Well, there were bad days in our life & there were lot of good days too. Distance didn’t matter to us. In fact, both of us have realized that the more we are away from each other, more the love & profoundness. This might come as a surprise to you, when I say, earlier I was secretly hoping that you travel abroad for 3 months & come back, so that I know for sure at least 1 week goes without fight J. While you were physically away, more than 1 hr a day was dedicated in my life just to email you. Biggest email I remember writing to you was about 58KB. Don’t you think it is a little weird? Yeah, may be for rest of the world, but definitely not for me. We spoke our heart in emails while you were away. We sent mails, we made phone calls & yet we chatted for another 2 hrs. Thanks to Yahoo. May be a reason why I still love Yahoo compared to all other chats.

There are a lot of things that we have shared including our passwords to our account at least once. No, I don’t expect your password now & neither do youJ . There were times when we both sat & talked about our past. But very weirdly we never spoke about our future as we probably never knew what our future would be. I have loved every moment I have spent with you.

I can write pages after pages, about what we have done, what we have not done or what we could have done better. But all good things do come to an end, like this blogJ ;) I will preserve rest of the blah blah stuff for another day…

I thought of a greeting card, then an e-card, then those flower bouquets that you love along with “MY IDEA OF GIFT”, for which we spent almost 2 hours yesterday. But nothing seemed as pleasing as this blog idea did. So here is the blog just for you my dearest sis on your birthday.
“Wish you a very Happy Birthday”. May all your dreams come true. May God shower his choosiest blessings on you. May you get everything in life that you aspire for, including those nice dresses & those chappals & slippers you wanted to buy from Bata J. May you have wonderful days ahead.

Wish you a very Happy Birthday Akka. You mean a lot to me.

Love,

Shubha