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January 17th, 2015 09:05 |
When I was younger (around 19), I went to a trek with 3 of my male cousins. All of us had huge suitcases with wheels and we were glad that there were wheels. I had a hard time carrying my bag but my older cousin's bag was even heavier and I could barely lift it with both hands, let alone carry it.
When we came back home from the trek, we were greeted by 2 of my younger cousin sisters at the gate of apartment complex. One is 6 years younger (lets call her Sheela) and other is 7 years younger (lets call her Rati) than me. They were visiting my family. As a joke, we asked them to carry our bags to our apartment which is on 3rd floor (by US standards since ground floor is called first floor). Sheela decided to carry my older cousin's bag (the one I could barely lift) and Rati decided to carry my bag. I thought they wouldn't be able lift the bags let alone carry to 3rd floor. To my utter surprise, Sheela easily lifted the heavier bag and started carrying it upstairs with just one hand! She used both hands sometimes but most of the time she used only one hand to carry it. Rati also lifted my bag almost as easily as me! Sheela carried the bag all the way upstairs without stopping or putting down the bag and Rati stopped only once or twice. I was in shock by the time we got to the apartment! Even my older cousin was shocked that Sheela could carry the bag and said the same to her mother when we got in. This was embarrassing since my older cousin knew that I could barely lift his bag. I didn't pay as much attention to Rati at the time but now I think she was almost as strong as me even if she was 7 years younger.
I wasn't really strong for my age but I wasn't a total wimp. I did go on a month long trek after all. I always knew Sheela was strong but I had not realized just how strong she was. This incident clearly showed me that she was much stronger than me. I shouldn't have been surprised considering both Sheela and Rati were regular dancers and I didn't work out at all except for the practice I did for trek. I had lifted Sheela before and found her surprisingly heavy compared to Rati who I could lift very easily. I should have realized that she had a lot of muscle on her!
After this embarrassing incident, I tried to figure out some way to find out how strong Sheela was but never got a good chance. There was only one incident where all of us cousins were messing around trying to hold each other down and Rati asked Sheela to hold and stop me from moving since "she is so strong". Sheela grabbed both my arms with just hand and held me in place. I could feel the strength of her vice like grip on my arms and she actually almost had me helpless. I was able to escape after some struggle since I was twisting both my arms to get loose and she couldn't maintain the grip with one hand. If she had used both hands, I would have surely lost. I think she didn't use both hands since she knew she could hold me with both hands and didn't want to embarrass me too much. Or maybe she just wanted to see if she was strong enough to hold me with one hand. I still have a hard time believing how strong she was and probably still is since she is still into dancing. How I wish I had arm wrestled her! It would have been both good and bad (embarrassing) since everyone would have known that she beat me in a direct test of strength.
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