While we are waiting and recalling all the things we want to do at this end of the planet, there are actually people at the other end of the planet who are doing it.
Here is my cousin Putul with her husband visiting Switzerland this week. When she called last night, telling us how she just got back from Switzerland, I told her with glee how I actually wrote about visiting the place two days ago in my blog and subsequently asked her for updates.
Putul is my favorite cousin. We go back a long way. Since we couldn’t possibly grow up together as I was situated on one side of the planet and she on the other, we had real bonding times whenever we both would get back to Bangladesh on our vacations.
Even as a kid, Putul was quite the doctor. She loved wearing the kitchen apron and treated us all like patients. She took our pulses, checked our tongues, told us we were alright and didn’t require an operation.
She is the epitome of turning wishes into reality. A doctor now, practising in uk, not only did she get a full scholarship for her studies, but she was the first person who was actually allowed to operate on a patient earlier than her classmates and appear on TV on a talk show.
Now, though we are not able to keep in touch like always, our busy lives taking us further away from constant updates on each other’s lives, she still is my favorite cousin. She will always be the baby sister I had fed when I was young. Whenever we do get a chance to meet up however, she never fails to put a smile on my face by asking “Oh my, but have you grown prettier?”
So, its definitely a coincidence that while I was writing about visiting Switzerland, she was, unknowingly and actually right there taking pictures to send for my blog.
