To B or Not to B

Its possibly been the best 12 months of my life. Exactly a year back Sudeshna and I were waiting with eager anticipation for the birth of June. On 16th of this month it will be exactly a year since she came on earth and I guess its time for some kind of commemoration.

Right from the time when I first got the opportunity of seeing and holding her there have been many a moments which I wish I could capture in words and pictures. June's first whimpers, her crying out for food, her blank looks till her first smile. Then one fine day she turned on her back right in front of my eyes and now June has two different styles of crawl - the tiger prowl and frog-leaps. She is also acquiring a personality of her own. She is having her mood swings and is picking some antics or the other.

But one year is too early an age when celebrations, gifts etc would make her feel special (a key objective of any parties organised around someone). Also June still does not know enough kids to organise a nice kids' party. Besides June still has the "Strangers' Syndrome" which makes her averse to most new faces that she sees. But we adults being adults tend to look at everything from our own eyes. And I am told that June might not realise the significance of a birthday party now but she would definitely question our intentions of not doing something to celebrate her one year on earth.

Thus Sudeshna and I feel there has to be something. Hence we wish to organise a small get together amongst the people that we know in Bangalore and hope that everybody would come uninhibited and have a nice time around June, even though she might not have the same around them (strangers' syndrome).

So I urge you all to keep yourselves free on the evening of 16th June Thursday at the cost of anything that is confronting you on that day (atleast that would make the occasion special). Watch this space for a personal invite from June containing all the required details....