Lucks!

A friend, a sister, a teacher, a student always loving and rarely irritating is LUCKS. Her name is not LUCKS actually; it is given name to her by me. Today is her birthday and I thought of wishing her in a different way. Here come a big warm hug and a very special birthday wish for my special Lucks. Happy Birthday, darling. You were always so close to my heart and will remain so. The only difference is that I am not able to spend as much time as before with you. I had a great time being with you for more than two years. You were always there for me in my ups and downs. You always had been my strength. We shared secrets and had the same opinion about life, love, family and friends. It amuses me even today that how my sayings, feeling and opinions inspired you always. I must agree that you were a good student and at the same time, you were my teacher. I learnt many lessons about life from you. Lucks I am getting too emotional now, do not know what to write more about you. Even now, while I am typing this I am smiling, thinking about you.

A letter to Black Rose

A year come and goes by. We make friends, we apart from them with the passage of time, with changes in preferences. And I believe every friend who comes to be part in our life, builds a special compartment for them in our heart that nor it is collapsible neither replaceable. They stay there forever in the form of sweet memories and remembrances. Sometimes they might be overshadowed but not detached. Today I would like to confess that you were always in my heart also in all those days when I was not with you when you were not there with me when I was happy and sad. I am trying to resume our custom of ‘expression through the letter’ your 16^th birthday onwards. :) Wish you wonderful days ahead and all the success and achievements you deserve. Happy Birthday, darling.

Happy Friendship Day

 August 7, the first Sunday of August, Friendship Day. As I am aware that the UN has declared July 30 as an International Friendship Day, but also there is a strong attachment with August as a Friendship Month, 1^st week as Friendship Week and First Sunday as Friendship Day.  I do not want to replace this day with any other date.

Today I am being a little bit nostalgic. I am getting a flashback of my school and college days frequently.  I had many friends then, it’s not that they are all gone but also we hardly happened to see each other. And top of it I find it rather awkward to share everything with them as I used to do back in my college days. Maybe it’s because I have found a best among the best friend in my husband itself.

Comforting The Elderly

If they do not have any source of income (like pension, old age allowances) give them some money on a regular basis so that they can spend for their day-to-day small needs. Even if the allowance is small, it doesn’t matter because it will mean a lot to them and make them feel more independent.

Last month I went to Briddhashram at Pasupatinath and talked with some octogenarians abandoned by their family. A significant number of elderly people told me that their son and daughters-in-law showed them the way to the elderly home just because they had been ‘uncomfortable’ with their children. At the most care and love demanding age, those old folks are spending very lonely, boring and nostalgic days in an old age home. All the beautiful moments shared with their loved ones have been lost.

Question, Answers !

It was last night
I had asked you a cold question,
Though you have already slept
I waited for a long,
Your warm breath upon my chest
sparked the answer,
your eyes were closed
still, they were saying so much.
your honest and delighted face
scattered the light of devotion
your arms around me
answered everything,
even the question I had not asked.
till the dawn my dear
I watched you completely
I felt you at full
and I got all the answers
sweet, honest and abstract.
since then
we have been lacking questions,
because we just have answers
sweet, honest and abstract.