Saturday, August 9, 2008

As different as finger prints

I am not that old…To be precise I am Just 23 (lol)…but I must admit that I have been opportune enough to travel a lot and meet many people in life. Knowing people has been an adventure in itself.
Come to think about it, every person that I encountered was a product of complex permutation and combination of characteristics and traits, not to forget circumstances. It’s easy at this point of time to draw a metaphor between finger prints and people. Just as two fingerprints in the world are not similar, so are we! The creator sure is a mathematician and a strategist- and definitely a witty one!
I have been so tied up lately with myself that I forgot to enjoy meeting people - and I resolve to correct it immediately. It was a sleepy afternoon that I was roaming in my hostel corridor to fetch some water from the cooler when I overheard my hostel bai (the maid who cleans the rooms) crying in one of the balconies. She is the one who comes and cleans our rooms every Sunday and the corridors everyday. I never even had given her a look, forget about a smile or acknowledgement in these 2 months. Coming back to that afternoon, I went and asked her if she’s all right – she replied in her bungling hindi that she is pregnant and for the third time she is being taken for a foetus-sex determination. (Which I dint know how they managed as its illegal). The first two times, her in-laws had managed her to undergo an abortion since the unlucky life inside her was a girl.
She was worried and trembling with fear. A person who held no meaning in my life made me see the reality of life. We are so comfortable in our nests of life that sometimes we live in a mirage of happiness and content. I made her some glucose, the only thing that is always present in abundance in my hostel room. I was so stunned that I could not tell her any of my “nari atyachar” lecture which I always confidently share amongst my gang of friends. The reality is stanger than illusion.
I could not believe that I said to her “Best luck.I pray It to be a boy” and left. Someone like me , who should have been angry and asked her to complaint against her in-laws walked away without saying much.
The next day she came back, woke me up from my sleep at 0800 and gave me a e-clair . She was beaming and said “Ladka Hai”. I am happy for her.
It’s high time I get back to my favorite sport—appreciating fingerprints as they are!

10 comments:

Isha said...

pooja u r right...everyone is different from the other person and becuase of our human tendency we try to find a person who is similar to us or we try to shape ourselves acc to that person we want to be with and in this process we miss out the others around us.

Nithya said...

Loved the way u put across ur thoughts. sometimes we do feel like people around us come from different planets. very rightly said that sometimes we ourselves don't know why we behaved like that.
anyway girl just keep ur creative thoughts flowing like this and u definitely have made me ur fan.;)

Niranjan Maddy said...

The fingerprint concept is good... i bought into it while reading it..
be more vociferous in ur naari morcha...

pooja said...

thank u ....:)kip inspiring

midfinger4u said...

every person is a walking autobiography just that we should have the eyes to see and the read them. Every autobiography, like any has stories and realities, which you yourself agree can be stranger than an illusion! Keep reading and the the haze will disappear one day and reality and illusion will become one

Want to be back to basics , simpler life said...

is it true ?
sad yaar , how horrible our society is till now.

Surendran said...

i like this post very much.. truth is sometimes really stranger than illusion ....

Sarang said...

I'm touched...
The words "Ladka hai" did help you arrive at a conclusion to the article...What if she said "Ladki hai?"

pooja said...

hmmmm..thankfully it ended on positive note for both of us

Raj said...

Knowing people has been an adventure in itself. true.
The reality is stanger than illusion.deadly.

:)

indians are still a shit herd at times huh? :)