Random Thoughts

it doesn't happen every day that ur life gets colorful. but today is rakhi. and though i don't have any sister of my own, i have got lots of rakhis today, all from my cousins. now it may not seem like a big thing to those boys who have sisters, or to those girls who think their brothers don't care for them. but for someone who is condemned to hear the career-related queries from his younger brother every time he calls home, this day indeed makes his life colorful. :)

you see change in almost every aspect of life, but it surprises you when you find it at most unexpected places. for example, just think about the rakhis are sold in the market today. there is not going to be any technological breakthrough in manufacturing or packaging them, nor do their buyers and users care about it. but still every year i find some innovative changes. i still remember that when i was young i used to have those big, and spongy rakhis on my wrist. those were big, around 2 cm in radius, and used to be multi-layered with 3-4 layers of sponge and fancy plastic designs. over the years, however, those went out of fashion and were replaced by thin rakhis. usually they are so thin that you can't tell the difference between the rakhi and the string that is used to wrap it. this year i again noticed a different design. this can be written as some sort of comeback of the old design. only it has fewer layers and it is not that large.

one last thought. many of my cousins are too young to know the signifance of this day. so their mothers have taken the trouble of going to the market, pick up the rakhi and courier it to me. i only hope that when my cousins grow old, they don't forget this big old brother of them. and also, that they don't start sending e-rakhis to my email account. who knows, this might actually come in fashion after some years !! some things are better left unchanged, even though they might seem irrelevant with changing times.