Thinking June

A growing wiser lesson

June is the time to learn new lessons. For some, it is their first lesson, for some it is the second or third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth ….so on and so forth

June is the nick name of one of my e-buddies. May be she got named that way by her parents coz she was born in the month of June. I guess so. I never asked…

After all, who bothers to give me a reply these days? It looks like people are growing wiser day by day, in many different ways…

When the ‘growing wiser’ thing came to my mind, suddenly, one recent incident comes into my mind. That is a birthday story of another e-buddy.

Yes, we all grow every year. That growth is not happening on a yearly basis, but the process is happening every moment, though we may not feel it every moment (our brain/mind need at least a night’s sleep to rearrange such stuffs, in most of the case (except for shocks/traumas). We are not the same we the next moment. If there can be anything that does not change, it is the change.

I told her that our birthday, a single day, all of a sudden reminds us a year’s growth. I guess she is one of the brightest kids (she is at least 23 years younger than me) I have come across recently. So, I wished her:

“I want you to grow wiser by a year”

I don’t know why, but when I was wishing her, I asked her to keep her old buddies…

I expected a ‘thank you’ for wishing her on her birthday. But she did not, though we were in good terms.

Here, in this part of the world, we ask our kids to respect their teachers and elders. (Most of the present day teachers (at least in my State) are not eligible to share the teacher tradition we had long time ago, I understand that. Some are busy planting the seed of their political ideology in young minds….some are after planting the tree of religion…some are busy giving special tuitions at their home…Some are just there to tell the society that I have a job). It’s part of our tradition, respecting the elders. I still see something going on with people of my age. If we happened to (accidently) touch our feet on an elder person, we touch them with our hand and then touch our heart /chest (why heart? It’s the ‘God is love-heart is love’ connection).. It is a symbolization of seeking forgiveness or even seeing God within...

I think I lost somewhere….

Yes, a ‘Thank you’ could have made the situation look decent or at least normal. It was a birthday, and I wished a happy birthday…After all, we say a lot of ‘Thanks’ and ‘Excuse me’, though we really don’t mean it, don’t we?

Growing wiser has many flavors…

More Lessons

June asked the kids to buckle up and get ready. June pushed open the school doors. It brought rains, moisture filled hugs, winds and Goosebumps, just like any other June.

It also brought cold and coughs...

I too learnt a couple of new lessons when June opened the schools.

A single mosquito taught me playing with mosquito repellent sprays can be dangerous to health. Unstoppable sneezing can lead to rupture of blood capillaries in the throat and nose area (we can confirm this when we finally get the taste of our own blood). That makes us more prone to infections depending on the circumstances..if we were ‘almost there’ before we start a sneeze marathon, we will ‘land there’ once the vampire act is over…

It was a good one; a touching one coz the teacher even gave her life for it…

Thanks! But spare me next time…

Then..

“You look very fit”

I have heard many people say this to me (well, celebrities are used to such things; can’t help it – wink)

“Look, swimming is good for you. It is a very good general exercise and it fits into your requirement..and it has less chance for injuries..”

Some people might have heard this from me too.

Though it was a May affair, it was June that revealed that I managed to injure one of my tendons, while swimming.

“What went wrong?”

“Wrong? Me? I was …you know…I mean…hem hem…just giving a live demo to show that even swimming can result in injuries, that too in a very silly way”

See, June always give us lessons..

The Time Wheel that repeated History

The Jupiter completed one more circle…

I was going through my ‘To Blog’ folder and saw many unfinished ‘stuffs’. When I read some of my unfinished poems, it made me laugh (well, at least smile) coz I felt it nonsense or stupid.

It is like that. When we look at our past, we might think we did many silly/stupid/nonsense things. Some of our talks with our then friends, some of our expressions, some of our acts and deeds…from a little serious to too silly thing (that we enjoyed that time) might look nonsense…

But it happens so because we are tying to see the past sitting in the present, without considering the fact that we have underwent many physical, biological and psychological changes. In reality, those acts and moments could be normal for the then situations based on the relationships we had with others (I know a woman who called her ex-husband an “a**ho**”. I am sure that the very same person was ‘darling’ or ‘honey’ in the past. Now, there is no meaning in thinking ‘ I cant believe that I called him honey’. When situations change, our emotions and the way we react/respond or express too change…).

It looks like there was one Jay who sat with a doubtful mind when the year of the OX (2009 is year of the Ox, as per Chinese belief) started. That is what this unfinished one shows

Twelve years ago, when the
Year belonged to the Ox,
I moved in to this new city.
Was it doubt or was it things
Those were not certain? At least
My mind is doubtful now and
I know it is not uncertainty.
I might have looked for pals
And I might not have found anyone

Was it a doubt?

Doubt is a state of being unsure of something. Doubt arises when there is no certainty or there is multiple possibilities which again show uncertainty….we are not sure, we don’t know…we don’t think so…no factuality…

So?

Was it a fear? A fear of losing his pals? May be the then Jay did not want to keep such a thought in his mind since he knew that thoughts can manifest into situations. Or may be that Jay died before he could finish it…

Now, after the completion of 5 ‘Ox months’, it looks like it had some similarities with the Ox year of 12 years ago, as the doubtful Jay feared of.

People, situations…many things look familiar…

The wheel will continue to rotate….