R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E-S

There are so many things that I cant understand in this planet I live in and one among that is R-E-L-A-T-I-V-E-S. How did they evolve? Okay, this I know but things like - did they evolve with brains - is something that has made my mind wonder.

You ask me 12 years back about my relatives then I would proudly tell you that they are my family but now I feel that they are this weird bunch of people who just love to wreak havoc on people. Whenever we came from vacations relatives would throng our houses and my dad like the summer Santa Claus would fling all kinds of "Faareign" things to them. They will lift me and my siblings, pull our cheeks, kiss us and never let our feet rest on the ground. Sigh! It was magical. They would all camp in our house when we leave for the airport and cry with copious tears. All the drama... phew!

Then we came here for good. I was waiting for all the attention and affection and all but where did everyone go? Soon we started hearing things like we don't help, we don't care, we are selfish people and after all they (relatives) have done for us we hardly mind them. Yeah, it tickled my funny bone too.

Recently, my uncle and his family came from abroad, so we and the relatives clan went to see them. I saw history repeat itself when my aunties and uncles were cuddling my uncle's kids, pinching their cheeks and slobbering their saliva all over them. Ugh! I was sick.

That's not all. There is always comparisons as to- 'oh my kid studies better!' or 'look I've got a kid who doesn't have a boyfriend' or 'I have brought up my kids with such discipline!' or 'look at me - I am the best.' I am so tired of such ramblings that I grew immune to it now.

I do envy some of my friends families who have such amazing relatives - they are like this perfect, fun-loving family - being there for them through thick and thin. I don't know what went wrong where in my family lineage. I just hope that my child doesn't write a blog post like this on my brother or sister's kids.

Happenings...

I am back after such a long time - really lost track of the blogging world I guess. Did not know what to write for this post so thought of penning down few incidents that happened lately.

Last week while I was going past office I saw this old woman lying on the road and people rushing up to her trying to give water. I recognized her - she was this confused beggar walking near cars and bakeries asking for money from bystanders. I was surprised that people actually were trying to help because I witnessed a live accident in Hosur a few months back where an old man flew from a bike and landed on his face on the tar road. I was looking all stunned and my mother in law was about to go feel his pulse but my husband stopped her. I was like gosh, this person's dying and we can't save him. But we were told that since we were just tourists, if anything happened to that guy we would be called to the station and would involve a hell lot of formalities. The old man survived but I was irritated with the way things work here; life was just not given importance.

I do hope things change here. However, there was one happy incident that took place which was also a few months back. I have a phone which is like something I CANNOT part with. It is like I lose touch with the world if I don't have it in my hands - okay - I know you get the point. So here I was shopping in Lynns and when I paid the bills, I noticed my small pouch that I carry my phone in was missing. I froze for a while. I became frantic and tried calling but brilliant me just had to put it in silent mode. I lost hope knowing that no one will neglect a chance to whisk away my red phone. I went to the counter where I purchased deos and there it was, untouched and waiting for me, and the sales woman just gave a casual smile and told me "you forgot to take your phone."

I felt like hugging her.  I mean she could have just switched it off and stolen it including the money in my purse but she just handed it out to me and I was just plain surprised. Maybe I should start believing there are nice people in this world.