My college is at the middle of no-where & before the good ol' days of mobile phones we had to walk a good kilometer to get to the telephone booth. It was the 29th of September in 2003. and i knew i would be an aunt that day. That day, i traversed the distance twice and on the second time i heard the happy news that i am indeed an aunt of baby girl. The little angel was the one who exalted us with the suffix 'KO'. And it was her gibberish that we adopted into our vocabulary and was in her every growing state we oohed-and wowed.. It was this little angel who grew up and complained that, me& her other aunts would come for her wedding complaining about "nadu noovunne" & "kaalu noovunne" and wouldn’t do a thing to help her out. And this was because she was the doomed one to squeeze in between the little space between the bed and the wall& pick the stuffs, when anything would fall into the said space- which was actually several times a day, during my wedding time. Now before everyone complaints about the cruelty of it all, she was the only one among us, who would fit into that little space. Yes, our family did grow in the past several years but it was mostly sideways!!!! And tomorrow this little one is taking another big leap in her life. Going to the big school....
And this is to wish you all the goodness in life, my Bekhs. May you grow up to bring a lot of happiness & pride to your parents and all the ones who love you.. Grow up to be a strong, unique, confident, kind, helpful and an amazing woman. You are nothing short of it even now.. But we are looking forward to that big size Bekhs .Do keep the Dhoom-Machale spirit in you going on, my chakkudu..
And i want you to remember this incident when you grow up to be 25 ...
Once you and me were sitting at Iris and you were showing me the Hindi alphabets and i was writing the consecutive Malayalam alphabets to each. Half way through, i was blank about a few, not-so-frequently used ones. Mind it, i am out of touch with them since i passed out from the 10th standard. And once this happened for a few times, the little one so innocently asked me...
"Without knowing all these alphabets, how did you go through your college?"
So keep your alphabtes afresh, or this Ko is going to take revenge when you get to 25!!!!!!!!!!!
It is a day later that the nephew is going to school for the very first time. And this is the little one, who is so oblivious to the world& his passion is to run free enjoying the sheer freedom of it. We doubt whether the long-term goal is to bring in a gold medal to the family at the Olympics. Whatever it is, run free, little Av. Be the cheerful little cherub you are. I have not as much seen your parents getting mad at you for anything other than being a free soul you are and neither have i seen making a major scene when they reprimand you. Well, scooping mud from the compound and laying it all on the porch doesnt actually call for capital punishment and when else are you eligble to do it, if not at 2????So continue to spread the love&smile and hitch your wagon to the stars, little one.
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