Hi guys!!!
Life is just meant to be for fun and laughter. Life is just to be lived for you and the people around you whom you love the most.
But all this has to be done with some kinda restrictions in this society. To live in India, you have to follow some norms and rules of the society. That is called Culture. Anything you do apart from your cultural values just throws you apart from the society, because it's considered a taboo. And such a thing I had done just few months back.
Here I am gonna tell you a brief anecdote of one of my life's most beloved but forbidden fruit.
May 2004,
It was the summer of 2004. The time of vacations, when we all cousins who lived out of my hometown used to return to our grandpa's home in Lucknow.
We all loved each other to our heart's bottom and used to wait whole year for this time to come, when we would meet and play together and enjoy under the shadow of our grandparents. They would also feel elated to behold us after an interval of about 1 year.
In that strange summer of 2004, something happened that changed my life forever.
One afternoon, I was asleep with my youngest cousin sister in a room of our grandparents' bungalow. Suddenly, I woke up hearing a violent sneeze from the other room. It was my dear grandpa.
Unable to sleep anymore, I just lay on the bed and gaped at the ceiling hoping I would fall asleep again. All of a sudden I looked to my side at my sissy sleeping. Her face was so serene and calm. Her eyes and lips at perfect places all of which just won my heart and unable to control myself, I kissed her on her cheeks lightly and looked at her for a moment or two and left the bed to play with my brothers.
May 2011,
Idling on a boring hot summer on facebook, I suddenly receive a friend request. It was from my youngest cousin sis Shanti. After accepting it, we chat for about one hour online about our past as we were talking after about 3 years. I barely remembered her face, so after she went offline, I browsed through her pics in her account. Left completely awestruck by her pics, I just couldn't imagine that this was my sis whom I had pecked on cheek 7 years back when she was just 12 years old.
She looked damn awesome in her pics flaunting her dazzling beauty in flamboyant dresses posing coolly with her college friends. Those were the same eyes and lips that I had yearned for 7 years back. The only change was just that the eyes had become sexier and the lips more luscious.
The next day I spent most of the time chatting with her through cell, about our past, present and future. We both were open-minded and so started exchanging non-veg messages too. All this went on for few days till my life's most awaited day arrived.
One day while chatting, she told me about the kiss I had given her when she was sleeping 7 years back. I was simply shocked and caught red-handed. How did she come to know about this?? Had anyone seen me doing that at that time? How could this happen?
Hard to find any words, I was numbed, when she herself declared that that day she was not sleeping actually. She had just kept her eyes closed, but she was awake, all of a sudden when I had landed the kiss on her rosy cheek.
I didn't know what to say to my little sis who was just 2 years younger than me. Suddenly, she texted me, "oh brother, chill. You didn't do anything wrong so why you feeling bad about it?" Indeed my li'l sister had become more mature than I had expected.
Suddenly it appeared to me that this was the time when I should tell about my feelings to her, and I hoped she would understand me. And so I replied back to her, "oh that's really sweet of you darling, but I wanna tell you a deep secret of my life. I hope you would react sensibly to this message. Do you promise me that?"
To this she replied. "Of course, dear!! Go ahead!!"
I wrote down: "honey, I don't know how to say this, but I want to confess this from the bottom of my heart, that I have fallen in love. And it's no one else other than you. And you have done this magic many years before when we were just kids. Don't know whether this is a grave mistake or a folly or some kind of hardcore dream I am in, but my feelings are true for you. And I am sorry, I can't help it to vanish away from my heart" and I sent the message.
Waiting for about half an hour for her reply, it seemed like half of my life had passed through in front of my eyes. After 45 minutes of patience, a reply came from her, and it changed my whole life.
She had written this: "Oh baby, why did you take so much time to say this, huh?? I wanted to hear it so long before but I just waited for you to tell this to me. You don't even have an idea of how deep I am in love with you, your personality and your simplicity. You are just what I want. You are my love. Muaahhh!!!"
After this, our chatting frequencies soared up to skyline levels. We just loved talking to each other, fondling through our words and hallucinating and sharing our feelings. We started talking for long hours at night, discussing about love, what all we will do together and all such things we had nurtured in our minds in these many years.
Behind all this was a strong irony that we both refused to remember it again and again. The thing that we were blood-relatives and what all we both were doing was strictly forbidden in our society. But still we just decided to enjoy our life as it is.
14th July 2011,
I was impatiently waiting for the boring class to get over as soon as possible. As soon as the professor went out of the lecture hall, I bid my buddies goodbye and dashed for the parking. Driving violently through the roads, I reached my home within 15 minutes. All this was not just for any serial or some sexy flick on the television, but all this hurry was just because of my angel.
Yes, my angel Shanti had arrived home for some holidays to my home in the afternoon. And I got to know about that surprise late that afternoon from my mom. Reaching home, I met my uncle and aunty and flinging my keys and bags, I ran upstairs to my room to meet my baby.