One of the scenes that remain indelibly etched in my memory is from a novel of Malayalam writer O V Vijayan. Father and little son are on a walk. Father tells son, “Walk carefully, son, otherwise you may fall down.” Son: “What will happen if I fall?” Father: "Relatives will laugh.” I seldom feel comfortable with my relatives. In fact, I don’t feel comfortable in any society, but relatives make it more uneasy. The reason, as I’ve understood, is that your relatives are the last people to see any goodness in you. On the other hand, they are the first ones to discover all your faults. Whenever certain relatives visit, my knees buckle and the blood pressure shoots up. I behave quite awkwardly. They often describe my behaviour as arising from my ego, which used to be a oversized in yesteryear. I had a few such visitors the other day. The problem was particularly compounded by their informing me that they would be arriving by about 3.30 pm and actually reaching at about 7.30 pm. ...
That's true. :)
ReplyDelete[ Smiles ] Hmmm. I never went out with the intentions of getting hurt on the playing field.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your philosophy about games, Tomichan.
Yes :-)
ReplyDeleteAhem...I played for the love of it and the high it gives and got hurt many a time. And I liked your dot-connecting game here ;)
ReplyDeleteVery true..
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ReplyDeleteso true and couldn't have been perfectly described..
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