#debsaristories #kalhonaho #LiveLifeNOW I was lying all this while. To myself. To you. Sorry gals! I have always stated I Love sarees. There wasn't ever a doubt in my mind about it, but yesterday night when we started receiving warning messages to prepare for potential evacuation due to the ongoing fires around bayarea, I only packed two things.
1. A bag of documentation including passports, our certificates and basically things that we needed to start life to scratch should the uneventful situation occur.
2. A bag of small valuables. Also including pair of clothes for each of us, medicines and those that are needed to keep our life on.
And for the first time saree did not make it to any of these kits. I felt cheated, I feel guilty at the same time. I was praying all night that hope the situation to evacuate doesn't occur and while I lay there awake I was wondering what if the worst had occurred?
What would happen to the beautiful sarees I have been collecting and haven't draped yet because I am still waiting for that perfect occassion or the perfect moment. What if that never comes by? Some new sarees are more than three years sitting in closet! Was this fair? Wasn't I simply splurging without need and that too something I couldn't carry when I am in an emergency. I felt terrible. I felt I had waited too much for that perfect moment and have perhaps let many passed by unnoticed.
So today, while we are all still worried about the terrible smoky outdoor weather, the 300000 acres fire burning and yet to be contained, the repeated messages of what to be prepared for (let me tell you one can never be truly prepared for an emergency) i took a moment to acknowledge today as a special day because I still have a roof over my head and my family is in tact with me and we smiled and we are together. Tomorrow could be another day and yet to be seen. What it holds is not in my hand, so I grabbed today and did not let go of it.
This is a beautiful organza jamdani saree with a black benarasi blouse..purchased more than two years ago. I thought the blue is best to cheer me up along with my favorite chai earrings.
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