The String

 The String Connecting The Beads.

I had a dance program. My mother stayed up all night ,wove beautiful white beads together with a string and made a necklace matching with my costume.
The string tied with a knot behind my neck.
The necklace enhanced my entire get-up .Beautiful shining white beads adorned my neck.
After the dance,my friends flocked around me and eagerly touched the necklace to feel the beads.
One of them tugged the string......
The knot wasn't strong.The string broke.
All the beautiful beads fell scattered all over the floor.

As long the beads were held on together by the string....the necklace adorned my neck.
The string broke.....
The beads simply fell apart.

Relationships between siblings and extended family members is similar to the beads and the string.

The parents and elders in the family are like the String which holds everyone together.
Once,they are no more....the siblings and cousins grow apart and the entire family just like beads simply segregate .

Biologically, parents and elders are the ones who bring relationships between siblings and cousins.
When we are children, all elders come together during holidays and festivals, interaction happening.
When we grow up,education and jobs make us busy.
It's our parents and elders who are responsible for that connection between our siblings and cousins.

Unfortunately in most families,once this string breaks,the busy life hardly gives a chance for us to come together. Nor do we make efforts to connect with one another.
That's currently how families are segregating and becoming more nuclear.
The string connecting the beads is growing weaker and weaker.
A small tug,....the beads woven by that string.....simply fall apart scattered.....all over.....at different corners.

Only if someone......consciously takes the effort to search and pick the beads from various corners....assembles the beads again and rewove together again into the string....string stronger and ties knotted harder.

Wish the necklace lasts forever..and so do the relationships.



Dr Tripti Milind Galgali
Hubli.