Human condition, as philosophers call it, is indeed funny, if not downright crazy, to put it mildly. Had many a close encounter of this variety today.
There was this student who was speaking as if I am at her beck-n-call. Of course, I managed to overlook her impudence as her anxiety. Then there was this parent who had completely forgotten all our earlier repeated discussions! Patience, in such contexts, is itself th communication, I felt.
Next was some crazy wapp message from some "rarruddin" which turned out to be something else from Tamilnadu according to the true caller, and hence I re-directed-cum-forwarded it with the message/the number where it deserved to go!In addition, getting the TDS certificate was starting to look like an adventure, while it should have been ready in the beginning of this month itself. To top it all, an 'Americanised' cousin kept on arguing about the U.S. goodness in a way that was more American than the Americans themselves. Better agree to disagree at times, I felt
Worst of all though was this message by a member of a group that poses to be veeeerrry open and democratic. Often the members would sneer subtly if anybody else beyond their own closed circuit comes anywhere near to express "their" ideas or know more than what they actually do. I indeed find such pretences extremely amusing because they always preach what they never practice, all along screaming to the rooftop how holier than everybody else they are!
Thank the Lord, Aai-Papa never allowed us to be so crude or rude. We were immediately corrected if we ever pretended to be uppity in any way. Hold your head high, but feet firmly on terra firma, was how we were brought up, and I thank them both from the core of my heart and soul for such an upbringing as more and more chicaneries of the wor(l)ds reveal themselves.
Pratima@healer, heal thyself first!
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