Blessed are the Healthy
By ChatGPT I was at an electrical supply store in my hometown a few days back. A young salesman said the item I required was in the godown which was on the fourth floor of the building. I was willing to wait since I had no alternative. And I sat down to contemplate on a GODOWN situated on the fourth floor of a building. When the young man didn’t turn up (should I say turn down ) in the next 15 minutes, I enquired whether there was something wrong. A phone call brought the guy down, all puffing and panting. And sweating, of course. There’s no life in Kerala without sweat so much so that I have often wondered whether Yahweh sent Adam to Kerala when He asked him to live by the sweat of his brows. The young man delivered the item at the sales counter and then stood right under a fan to cool himself. As I drove back home I said to my friend who had accompanied me, “You and I could climb up five storeys easily and come down without all that puffing and panting and showing off.” We wer...
