Well, special days and unique fests have now gotten to be undiminished occasions for buying and more buying, anything from artificial jewellery to dress material to new furniture or utensils, or whatever. In this eternal zest for shopping more, more and more, have we forgotten relationships? Are emotions only for yesteryear ads, as they no longer make even them as before?
On Akshay Tritiya day, Aai always used to make the unique daliya/rice grain kheer in a separate pot she specially reserved for this very purpose. Papa would without fail visit the Sarasbaug Ganesh temple. On the way back, there would be the buying of Alfonso mangoes for the weeklong feast. Neither insisted that gold must be bought, but they felt that precious moments of undiminished togetherness-es needed to be spent forever.
Why are the next generations becoming more and more self-centred? Why is personal space so diminishing that it has no place for immediate relationships either? Given the pace of life, none expects that you meet your siblings, for example, every day. Yet a two-minutes-call every fortnight or a wapp message once a month is not much too much to expect, right?
I always choose to daily send my brothers one really worthy/info-rich wapp message. It could be a video or an audio or a text. Raju often sends at least a thumbs up. At times, he sends a worthy message or two, too. Well, as I am not the "no news is good news" type of person, unashamedly I am happy even with a blue tick by His Lordship's!
Oh, yes, Raju bothers to respond to my insistence on the "reached" message. In my opinion, somehow it seems to continue the "Aai is there" feel. Senti for sure, but that is the way mental bonds remain "akshay", undiminished forever, I think, as I believe that such simple sincere actions speak louder than the actual words of/in a wapp message, right?
Pratima@Being too formal, excessively professional, consciously maintaining distance in close familial bonds is killing the warm mother feel in one's own self, I feel. That could be a better interpretation of the Parshuram Jayanti celebrated on the Akshay Tritiya day, right?
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