No Love Lost

P is angry with me that none of my many relatives in Bangalore is helping him. I understand his frustration over the past few months, working against seasoned crooks and trying to extract help from an unfriendly system. But while I seriously doubt if any of my kin would've been of help in this matter, I have a problem with the very expectation itself. Because P doesn't like any of them by default. He'd rather avoid meeting them even once in few years. To think of them as something useful now seems rather unfair.

The list of people I'm overdue calling is only growing. And none of them is obligatory. It's quite a frustratingly long list of people I love, to think of it.