For my sister, with love

Not so very long ago, a group of teenyboppers, all girls, sat squeezed up in a 6 ft by 8ft room, bored to death, wondering how to enliven things up.

In you walk… oops, did I say you walked in?...No! Of course not! It couldn’t be! You didn’t glide in….Rather, you’d crashed in through the door tumbling all over the place, excitedly screaming ‘Oh my god! Oh my god!’... looking at all our stunned faces, while you were jumping up and down.

All psyched up by then, 2 of us held you down, and badgered you to tell us what was throwing you into bouts of excited screams.

The reason for your excited screams is not what I want to highlight here

Point is by then, ‘You’ have managed to wake us all up from our bored stupor.
You’ve always done that for as long as I remember you.
Engrossed in a book, you would laugh aloud at something funny the character in story does. While you read a book, we end up reading your facial expressions. It changes with each turn of a page. You enchant us, my dear.

Oh, I am sure I have never told you this but my love for books, my interest in reading was inspired by you. Remember those days, when I was busy running errands and completing chores while you were cozily wrapped up in your blanket gorging on a novel? That’s when I decided to ‘beat you at it’ – I planned to read one book after another, racing you to it. Little did I know it would become a good habit. Point is ‘it is all because of you’.

I grew up to from a clumsy teenager to an independent, assertive and somewhat no-nonsense yet, fun-loving individual because of all those times you’ve allowed me free reign, never stopping me, even though you are my older sibling. You’ve never stopped me. You watched me grow. Allowed me to trip and fall cause then you would come running with a band-aid.

Wow, I never gave it a thought before, but hell yeah, I have the coolest elder-sister EVER!!! How many of my friends can say that? Not many, am sure.

I admire you for a lot of things; you’ve been my ‘quiet hero’ many times. I didn’t hug you then cause I respected your ‘anti- hug campaigns’ :P (i can never understand this though!Are you allergic to hugs?) LOL

Life has not been a cake-walk for you. You’ve come across one mountain, climbed over it, while another one heads your path.

For a moment when I thought of you I wanted to bow down in prayer, bargain with the Creator, asking him to take away all loads (heavy or light)off you.
But then I thought of the story of how gold is made (read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho), how the clay gets molded into beautiful pottery (read The Bible). I stopped dead on my thinking tracks.

Yes, this is it. This is it! (Eureka moment)

The reason why you are encountering one mountain after another is simply cause you are headed out to become the complete You- magnificent and benevolent, kind and gentle, wise and compassionate, beautiful, invaluable YOU.

Patience my dear, have patience.

In no time, it would all be fine- ‘just as it should be’.

Here is something for you:

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most,
Just gotta keep going

Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith,


If you feel like you are doing it alone, you are not.
Stretch out your hand, mine will be holding yours.