Sister

As I saw off my sister today, who returned to her medical college in Pune, the feeling of separation weighed down heavily on me. When she had come from Pune to spend her 15 days winter vacation, all she would say for the first 3 days was how she missed her friends and then 3 days before the departure date, she kept saying that she didn't want to go back. Our mother being the strict one would always say that sacrifices such as these are necessary to succeed in life. I too echoed the same and even added in a little bit of “elder brother” admonishing to the lecture to show to her that I wouldn't miss her a bit and in fact would be happy, since I get the entire house to myself.

But now that she's off to Pune, I can feel how much I have grown used to her presence over the short 15 days that seemed to me no less than a month. The house seems a lot quieter today. Though I prefer peaceful environment, but still I miss her constant chatter. Even our pets seem to have noticed her absence and have gone awfully quiet. It's as if they want to show they are missing here too, like me. Yes I am glad that I finally will have the TV all to myself, yes I am glad that there'll be no-one to weasel off to my father for every single bit of my mistake, yes I am glad that now I don't have to put up with her teary-eyed ploy to get my father to get her something most of the time from my possession, but I'll miss those all the same. For she was after all the one person who would cheer me up when I was sad, advice me on how weird my drawings looked, comment on my articles and creations, order her around the house to do my part of the chore so that I can catch up on a little bit of extra sleep or just plain help me pick the color that looks best for a new application that I was coding. Even the part that I should be happy about seems dull because I won't have to fight over them with her. And at the end of the day, I'm going to miss those more than anything else. 

The only silver lining to all this is the fact that she will be coming back after a long period of 6 months, though I reckon this is going to be a very long 6 months. To make matters worse, my vacations are still half-way from being over, otherwise I would have something to bury my head in. Though now I also wish that my sister never stumbles on my blog, because if she reads this article and comes to me with that grin and “you missed me!”.........*shudders*