Rakshabandhan marks the beginning of festive season for me, and from here, I start to count the last days of another year. One reason why I like festivals so much is that they give us a reason to celebrate life with our loved ones even when things in life might be tough at the moment. And we’re Indians; of course we celebrate each festival as if it’s the last one.
For those who don’t know about Rakshabandhan, it is an Indian festival which celebrates the bond and love between brothers and sisters. The sisters tie a protective thread (called a rakhi) over their brothers’ wrists and the brothers vow to protect their sisters forever (plus, they also give us gifts!!!).
If you’ve read my last post, then you might know that my 4th semester of college is almost over as my finals started this week, and exams being the only thing on my mind for the past few weeks, I was thankful for Rakshabandhan to give me a day away from stress.
It is one of the special occasions of the year when I put henna on my hands. Though every year, the night before Rakhi, I search for complex designs to challenge the amateur henna artist inside me, this year I was already too tired from studying to stay up another couple of hours for mehndi. So I decided to go with the very casual but definitely the best mehndi design for this Rakshabandhan…
I went to sleep right after I finished my design on one hand. My sister kept insisting to apply henna on my other hand too so I let her duplicate the same design on my right hand. I thought it was just okay-ish at first but after the color came out I was so happy with it.
The thing I was looking forward to the most this Rakshabandhan was to wear this dress I got as a gift a few weeks ago for the festival.
Apparently, the auspicious time to tie Rakhis was after 1:30 pm so until then we finished other preparations like shopping for sweets and rakhis.
An hour later after I was done bickering with my siblings for my brother didn’t give me and my sister a good amount of money as our present, we left for our cousins’ place. It’s a good thing that all my close relatives live in one place with their houses next to each other so we don’t have to travel much on Rakshabandhan, otherwise it would be pretty hectic.
The day of Rakhi always feels like a family get-together to me. The rest of the day went by us cousins taking pictures together and then listening to our parents and uncle-aunties telling us stories of how they used to fight as kids vs how they do now.
Stories that you might have heard many times before but are always interesting to hear again when you have people next to you to laugh along with.
With that, I hope you enjoyed reading this post. I would have posted sooner but thanks to exams and bad health, I was unable to do so. Anyways, I’m glad that we’re here!
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