मानपान : To Honor

In my culture when there are weddings relatives are honored with clothes and other rituals. 

Yesterday Harishchandra whom we call Harchan gifted me this saadi and said wear it for my son’s wedding and attend. I bought a good one. I thanked him and immediately he called his wife on phone who has been my childhood vacation friend in Thal and asked us to talk to each other. I felt so loved ! 

Harchan was a very hardworking kid growing up. His home was a hut and had no electricity even when the rest of our village had electricity. He went fishing with his father and studied well too. So my parents let him sleep and study in our Thal home. Which was huge and empty. My Aai lived there alone for around a decade at the time. She would share food with him at times. Later he worked for Zilla parishad. He told my cousins that he is grateful for our help. So he honors all of us 5 cousin sisters with saadis. He is one of the many my family has helped. I am grateful to my parents for teaching us kindness by example. 

It isn’t important how much the saadi costs! The love and honor is all that counts. He insisted I wear and attend knowing I might not wear it for the wedding. I immediately assured him. 

So today I made the tassels and getting my look ready for 8 March.