Diwali wishes
The sister who has married away, moved for work or gone abroad is the person Diwali is quietly hardest on. These six are written for her, from home or from equally far away.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
Happy Diwali, behen. The house is loud, the lights are up, and there's a clear gap where you usually stand telling everyone what they're doing wrong. Mummy has asked about you four times already. Hope your day is a crowded, well-fed one. 🪔
Continue writing with message 1Happy Diwali. Wishing you a proper festival, more sweets than sense, and a break from whatever the year has been making you carry. Save me some of whatever you've made, or send photos at the very least. Thinking of you today more than usual.
Continue writing with message 2Happy Diwali. However far apart we end up on the day itself, you're still the person I want to tell everything to first. Hope this year is kinder to you than the last one bothered to be. Eat too much, sleep badly, and enjoy all of it.
Continue writing with message 3Happy Diwali. It genuinely isn't the same without you arguing about diya placement for forty minutes and then rearranging everything after the guests have gone. Wishing you light, sweets, and considerably fewer relatives than we're dealing with here.
Continue writing with message 4Happy Diwali. I keep thinking about the year we finished the rangoli at eleven at night and somebody walked straight through it before breakfast. Nobody minded. Missing having you here for all of that. Keep a plate aside for when I next land.
Continue writing with message 5Happy Diwali, behen. The lights are up, Mummy has asked about you four times since morning, and the diyas are all in slightly the wrong places because you weren't here to correct anybody. It's a smaller festival without you in the middle of it. Hope your day is loud and well fed, and hope this year goes gently.
Report the house to her. A sister away at Diwali does not want a blessing, she wants to know what is happening at home: who came, what was made, what Papa said. Two lines of that is the most generous thing you can send.
Name the gap without making it heavy. There is a space where you usually stand says she is missed; we are all miserable without you makes her feel guilty for a flight she cannot take. Keep it affectionate and slightly dry.
Send it before the forwards start at six in the morning.
Write her Diwali cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.