Rakhi wishes
Raksha Bandhan is the one festival that is entirely about a sibling, and increasingly about a sibling in a different city. These six are written for the year the thread arrives by courier.
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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 Rakhi, bhai. Different cities, same arrangement as always. You're still the first person I call when something breaks and the first one I want to tell when something finally goes right. Have a good day today, and don't skip the sweets.
Continue writing with message 1Happy Raksha Bandhan. I don't think I've ever told you that taking the blame for the broken window is still one of the kindest things anyone has done for me. Thank you for that, and for the twenty years of similar. Wishing you an easy year.
Continue writing with message 2Happy Rakhi. Thank you for turning up every single time it mattered, usually without being asked and never making a thing of it afterwards. Hope this year is steadier than the last. Tie the thread yourself if I can't get there, and eat something sweet.
Continue writing with message 3Happy Rakhi, bhai. Consider the thread tied, the sweets claimed in advance, and the argument about whose turn it is to call first officially unresolved. Grow up a little this year, but not so much that you stop being annoying. That would be a loss.
Continue writing with message 4Happy Raksha Bandhan. Rakhi at home used to take four hours because nobody could agree on when to start and Mummy kept adding people to the plan. I miss the chaos of it more than I expected to. Thinking of you today from a long way off.
Continue writing with message 5Happy Rakhi, bhai. We're not the sort of siblings who say much, so this is the once-a-year version. You've turned up every time it mattered, usually before I'd worked out that I needed you to, and never mentioned it afterwards. That's the whole thing, really. Hope this year is steady, and come home for the next one.
Write about the arrangement, not the ritual. Every forwarded Rakhi image already covers the thread and the sweets. What it cannot cover is the actual deal between the two of you — who calls whom when something goes wrong, who covers for whom in front of the parents. That is the card.
One old story beats any amount of blessing. A specific childhood incident, told in one line, is proof of a shared past that no template can fake. Keep it to a single sentence; the point is the reference, not the retelling.
The thread may be late. The card can arrive at midnight on the day.
Write his Rakhi cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.