I got a really good piece of news today!! I am so happppy!! I do not remember the last time I was so ecstatic! I forgot what it felt like…. I just wanna bask in it now you know…. Enjoy the feeling while it lasts! I’m completely loving it! I cud get used to this! Ok so I’m getting to you people… wanna know what it is?! Well I guess its something that would excite me personally! My sister’s gonna have a baby!!! (I do not like the word pregnant)! Anyways isn’t that great? I never thought it would excite me to this level! I live in a joint family, where with my family of my mom, dad, brother and myself there is my dad’s brother’s family of him, my aunt, and their 2 girls. Of my two big sisters, one is happily married with two girls (who are my angels- I love them more than anything in this world) and one is studying abroad! I was very close to the one who is abroad, so I really miss her sometimes, and I’ve never been as close as I am today with the sister who is married as I am today. Ok anyways, lets continue the family tree, my dad’s sister too is married with 2 daughters. My aunt (dad’s sis) would visit us very often, which is why it almost makes it like I have 4 sisters and one brother! So you see we are a very close-knit family, as close as they get! So the sister, who’s getting a baby, is by dad’s sister’s elder daughter! Got it? And it is a very big deal, as the last baby to be born in the family (my darling youngest niece) is now eight years old. I just look at her everyday and think, ok so there’s another year or two of a kid left in her, we need some new kids in the family. I love children, I can spend hours with them, speak their language, sometimes make them speak mine, play their games, fight their fights! So it is a BIG deal for me!! Now that I’ve finished explaining, I can get back to the feeling of extreme happiness!! I had always heard the expression of tears of joy, and seen it a lot in movies, especially Bollywood movies, where the tears of joy could create a lake ;), but today I actually experienced it. It was weirdly wonderful, and a lil embarrassing! Every time I’d congratulate someone, there would be a couple of tears rolling down my face, without me even realizing I was crying. And as soon as I got to know the news, I called everyone. When I spoke to my sister congratulating her I thought I’d burst with happiness, and there again there were those tears. I was trying to hide it. I don’t know if I succeeded. Then I called my parents (who were out of the city), I told my mom and there were the tears again! The next in line to call were my other sisters (cousins), and every time I’d say “congratulations”, I would feel my eyes welling up! It was weird. Well I keep hearing from everyone that I’m not that expressive, it annoys me a lot. But I hear it. I am also labeled as the most sensitive person of the family, so I really don’t know what people want to say, whether I’m not expressive or I’m very sensitive. Cos I really thought it is kind of the same thing! So back to the tears of joy I experienced. The last time around when my other sister gave birth, I was too young to realize the meaning of it and was more than happy that I was getting a living doll to play with. Today I just realized what that one kid as going to mean to so many people!! It is fantastic, the amount of pressure a kid has before he’s even born, the amount of hopes on his little and soft head. It is quite amazing. So I guess we shouldn’t be complaining of having a little pressure when we are growing up. So that’s it, I’m enjoying this feeling of extreme ecstasy which I don’t remember feeling before! And I think I need to feel it more often to realize just how beautiful life is. Not just kids being born… but something in my life which will get me excited to the point where I didn’t realize I could be that happy! But then again if I feel it too often I might forget how special the feeling is. So what has made all of you cry tears of joy?