Sisters

We are four, and I am the eldest - of all girls.  My parents were trying to have a boy.

I am told that I was once asked how many sisters I had, and I had responded " Many".

Recently however I have come to realise that this "many" is just exactly right; each has played a distinct and an important role in nurturing different facets of my human growth - by teaching me grace and compassion; by deepening and widening my reverence for art and beauty; and in challenging the frontiers of my intellect - respectively and combinedly.

I have always appreciated my sisters, and love them dearly. Now, I also know I owe them.  Even one less would have left me - less.