SCHOOL TIMES : Sibling love
I felt that I was always teased and dominated by my sisters. It was
my daily routine to cry for an hour or half. My mother used to tell me to avoid them. But how could I? They used to share a room with me.
Nothing in my room was actually mine. Whenever we used to have discussions, I was left alone and defeated until I joined boarding school.
The life had a routine here and I never much felt the absence of my mother, but something inside me was incomplete. When I first went home for vacation, I was surprised to see everyone cooperating with me.
I was crazy about TV, and used to watch all the films again and again. This was also a point of discussion — my elder sister, Serene hated superstitious and fictious movies, while I used to watch Harry Potter a million times. She was quite annoyed.
During my next winter vacation, only Serene and me were at home. I could not believe that she ate everything I had cooked and even motivated me to cook further. One day, she asked me to pass a cream while she was quite close to the drawer cream and I was far. I didn’t consider it that important, but she forced me to bring it, and we had a bit of a discussion. I gave up and opened the drawer, there I saw a 5-in-1 DVD of Harry Potter movie. I came to realise her love for me.
Then I started noticing other things about her. I found her making cakes on my birthday and giving me presents. I was close to her; my life was filled with happiness.
Though I was not a good sister and didn’t have any idea about her likings, I wished her on her birthday, made cards with my own hands and gifted her. She accepted these things easily though she never liked them. Once when I asked for a thing that she liked best, she handed it to me because she knew I liked it too.
Today, my sisters are studying in India and I feel really incomplete without them. I wish I could rewind my life to those days when we were children, when we were together.
Parting really makes you realise whom you really do love.
— Sunny Amatya,
Class X, Nepal Police
Higher Secondary
Boarding School