Summer Time: My Boy Years

The summer air gets more hotter as the years go by. The gentle breeze of the yesteryears brings back the fond memories.   The naive thoughts , the carefree laughter, the innocent games... I feel them on my skin and the warm feel yet soothes so much.

Listening to country road by John Denver takes you furthermore in your journey backwards.
Growing up in a joint family seemed so cumbersome then but the diversified and versatile childhood it gave me is beyond compare. Sharing the room with brothers, playing games boyz play gives you so much insight and how much they teach you. Fight like a Man, has a meaning to it, and I know exactly what!

I know what respecting a woman and treating her right is thanks to my brothers. ( pushing me off the sofa, wrestling with me, criticising my choice of clothes. how I dress, interupting my endless phone conversations, my choice of boyfriends aint counts).

Thanks to my rowdy brothers I never had dolls to play with.. Thanks to you guys, my belief stands strengthened, I am a Doll!!  I still mourn the fate of the only doll I ever had, poor thing met her fate at the hands of career aspirations of my brothers.. My doll was subjected to Intravenous injections.. this brother is a Doctor now, Her hair pulled out and arms dislocated.. Gosh he is also a doctor now. She was made a football, thrown around and kicked.( He builds roads), Laughed at and made to look funny and ugly, He is a college Principal now. What happened to civilization and chivalry???
But thanks to the same brothers I know to stand up for myself and live life on my own terms. The age old adage of you are a girl, the do's and dont's aint affected me throughout my growing years

Our mutual love for dogs goes back to this time. Ensuring the stray pups are fine, making brick houses for them in our garden, to feeding them milk to giving them cute funny and oh ya yes.. boyish names, Again!! Sneaking them in the house was such a high those times, hiding them in the balcony.  I particularly remember this furry angel whom we had named Anna. She stayed with us for 2-3 days and it was amazing. But seeing how much she missed her brothers, My almost elder brother Sushant took her back to them. I remember he said she is more happy with them then she is with me. Thank you bro you may never realize but you taught me a big lesson then. When you love someone what matters more is what makes your loved ones happy more than your own happiness. I have strived to live all my life that way.

All the boys time during my growing years makes the fact that I was the only gal amongst all boys making it more interesting. More attention and more care!! I know its a whole different world and yet so similar

I cherish the woman I am today. Thanks for Everything, Prashant, Sushant, Abhishek, Aniket and my darling Vaibhav. I love you All.