Other than a small cake cutting
at home yesterday, it turned out to be another day and I’m not complaining and
I also expected none towards the day. But I remember my birthday of 2008 (10
years back) that fall within 10 days of my great grandmother’s demise and we were
staying at our native house (which is a street away from our current house) for
16 days ritual and there wasn’t any celebration to signify the birthday but it was a
present and few words from cousins made my day. We left our native house in
2005 due to my discomfort and difficulty in carrying me up and down the stairs
to our home in first floor. No one expected my life would be difficult or unable
to walk when the house was built, leaving the entire ground floor to expand the
workshop of my uncle, we moved after buying a flat in neighbourhood, about 4km
away from there. After nearly a decade living away, we shifted back to same area in
2015 and continue to stay a street away from the native house, and this is a
ground floor house that much suited my need. Now we have decided to go back to
our native house and work has been already started to convert the house to my
comfort and an elevator is yet to install to lift me up and down along with
wheelchair. Things are expected to finish by the end of this month (August) and
we have informed the current house owner already about our move.
Coming to the point of this post,
I could recollect what my cousins told or requested that day with their innermost
desire to live close. I wasn’t quite happy staying away from them, and from the
area where I grow up till I was 20, even though the distance may be 4km but I always
felt we’re a family of one, because they are none other than my dad’s younger brother’s
kids. I could not stop thinking a life without them and how far we go, heart
will keeps beating for them and for us, it was whom we could look out for before
reaching anybody. Their wishes (as well as mine) have come close now and we are
to become a family of two door front in a month time but I couldn’t feel the happiness
as then and their attitudes weren’t same as well. I’m not saying they are unhappy
or uninviting about our move, but I could understand the changes that life
treated all these years and perhaps lot of exposure on various things might turn
their attention or I feel unnoticed while they are busy social networking. When
they expressed their desire, the situation wasn’t favour but we travelled together
and sailed with bond which continues to tie on various occasions and in the
last 3 years I didn’t feel strange or different until we decide to move close. I
think my uncle family seems to feel uneasy, as we move closer, they may think loss
of privacy in our presence and some scratches being close enough, but maintain a
distance and balanced relationship is sure to work I feel. That’s all for now
