Cousins

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW BORING FAMILY REUNIONS ARE WITHOUT COUSINS TO HANG OUT WITH?! I'll tell you how boring it is. IT'S REALLY REALLY A HUNDRED TIMES BORING ! Sometimes, when you stay at a relative's house, without a cousin you can really relate to, it feels like you've been there for a million years when it had only been a few minutes.

Cousins are an important part of our lives. Well, except if your parents' are an only child, then you'd probably won't have cousins. But anyway, when you do have cousins, and when you are really close to them, if you miss the one week of not seeing them, you'd feel like some part of you is missing, since you always visit them every week. Or the other way around. Well, I do. Maybe not all your cousins. Just the ones you are really close to. I get that some people are loners and when their cousins come 'round, they don't even bother to greet their cousins. But, I'm telling you, you're missing a BIG part of your lives. Because cousins are amazing.

The other day, on Raya Haji, I went to visit my "long-lost" cousins. Okay, maybe they are NOT so "long-lost". I just don't see them often. It's been about three years or so since our last visit. So, as you can guess, we're not really close. They're old anyway. That was the time, I realized that I really really miss my cousins that are in Australia. It felt like the family reunion wasn't completed. And it was SO BORING ! You cannot imagine how much I missed them and how bored I was at the moment!

So, now I know that cousins are an important part of my life/our lives. On every 24th of July, we should celebrate cousins' day. Or if you don't celebrate it (not that I do), you should at least be thankful that you have a cousin or cousins that you can relate to.