family

Weather here is cold..winters and rains merge to give us longer cold days.Its not that it goes minus.But @ times it goes deeper into skin and makes one shudder. Summers are short and pleasant.But a decade ago or so the weather used to be raw and wild which is not often seen these days.Anyways I love the weather then and now...as its not the weather that I am in love with.Its My place..my soil ..the place where I was born, my childhood memories, where all my family members were married..their kids...cousins..friends..wow!Haven't I named it right? Can u deny that?

I come from a family of five..dad had settled there when he was twelve  and got married to my mom.Now we are 16members. Just because two people fell in love!!My dad and mom...Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.Now my brother and my sister are in Coorg.The rest have migrated to different places of the world.But we relish those moments when we get back to our abode...Its filled with noise,musiq , games,chattering, cooking, songs..what not? All of us want to listen and be listened to.Time just flies then. I am the youngest of the lot and get pampered big time and secretly I relish , I enjoy those moments. I become a child!

Its not that we are filthy rich and filled with luxuries but because we feel comfortable, wanted and loved back home.We just love being side by side. To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them(not all).You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.If one feels God has done a mistake, don't worry one has all freedom to CHOOSE a friend...but families are families and they have no substitutes.

Sometimes just remembering them gives a lot of strength from within..We were (and continue to be) a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, dancing ,defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together..my dad and mom!OuR Family...Someone has rightly said, Blood's thicker than water..

Not one will ask how many friends do u have but the question will be about the family...I am so blessed and it keeps me going.Don't know the reason behind writing this but felt that I have to share this thought process. Thinking in this line has made me feel nice from within ,a kinda energy(I'm not sure whether this is the right word).Got what I wanted to convey right?More in the next..a lil emotional now..I'm signing off.