Kahkashan - The True Love Story


I don't know why guys look at a loveable girl as a girlfriend, lover or wife. One can also love a girl as a good friend, sister or companion. When I like a girl, I don't care what kind of relation I can have with her. I just make sure that some kind of relation should be there.


When I was in college, I used to live in a paying guest house. There was also a cute girl who used to live there. Her name was Kahkashan. I used to feel very pleasant just by her presence. Although we used to meet often but there was no defined relation between me and her. I was thinking to tell her that I want to be her friend but one day while we were having dinner she told everybody that she wanted to tie 'Rakhi' on somebody's wrist but nobody ever allowed her to do so.

After some days I went to my home for 'Rakshabandhan' and from there I came back with a 'Rakhi' for her. I gave her the 'Rakhi' and asked her that would she like to make me her brother? She happily ran away and arranged the proper things like a 'Diya', 'Kumkum' etc. etc. In spite of being a Muslim, she tied the 'Rakhi' in the same way my sister does.

And she became my adorable sister. But! After some time I moved to a room I took on rent. Due to a quarrel about caution money with the owner of the paying guest house, I couldn't go to the place for a few months. When one day I went there I found that Kahkashan was not there. She had moved to some other place and I had no clue. I had lost my sister but how can I loose those memories of her. I regret myself for my failure in maintaining the relation. I thought I will never make any such relation in future because I thought I was not responsible enough.

But! Later I realise that even if it was for a short time I gave her the pleasure of having a brother. At least she could fulfil her wish to tie a 'Rakhi' on somebody's wrist. Anyway! The pleasure of making someone happy is far more than achieving happiness from others. It doesn't matter, what kind of relation you have with someone, but it should be selfless.

Kahkashan means the Milky Way. Whenever I see the Milky Way in the sky I remember my lost sister.


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