Month: September 2018

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Please get me a chicken burger but without the chicken, please.

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This was an uncommon request that we heard a customer made to a waiter at an Italian restaurant.

It was deadly quiet in the morning and only we(ma, baba and me) and this other patron were the only customers in that Italian restaurant at eleven am. The waiters, stewards and the captains were barely awake themselves as they had done the night shift till one in the midnight and then they couldn’t get up early.

A few of them were sitting on the stools and were merciless rubbing their eyes, making them more and more redder. After we had sat on our table it took atleast ten minutes before someone came and gave us the menu card. A waiter came and took our order, yawning a few times in between and he apologized for the yawning, saying-“Sorry, the evening shift went on till one midnight, so I could barely sleep”.

I replied-“Its alright”.

He then proceeded towards the next table to take her order, when that customer said-“ Please get me a chicken burger but without the chicken, please”. This sentence brought him, straight out of the sleep mode and he was looking at that patron with surprise.He replied-“Ma’am we don’t have a chicken burger that can be served without chicken. You can go for veg burger, if you wish.”

The patron-“no, no, I want a chicken burger without the chicken patty”.

The waiter went to the kitchen and he probably had a few words with the chef. He came and replied-“Ma’am, we can’t possibly serve such a burger to you. Would you like to go for something else?”

The patron-“Yes, a glass of pure, cold fizzy water please.”

The waiter served her that.

Our food arrived and that patron sat there for more than half an hour without ordering anything.

Before we left the restaurant, the patron was still there with the menu card still in her hands.

 

What a chicken burger!

Adios and Happy Eating!

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Magnitude Of a Writing.

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A writing often describes the inner being of a person and gives us a little view into his or her personality. The way the words are written, the styling and placing of the words and the tone in which a writing has been written, says a lot about that person and that person’s knowledge of a particular thing.

A story books written by famous authors gives us a view of the world through their eyes. For example:- a book written by Enid Blyton will always be full of fun, frolic, lessons and fantasy. Simply the author’s name is enough to convince a person about the quantity and quality of the book. But that is not always true. Many people after tasting success, write and publish such articles, books, posts, etc., which are not even worthy of being published.

Writings most of the time, don’t get their justified place in this world. Most of them are buried under superfluous, false and monetarily published writings.

Majority of the people can’t recognize excellent content from normal content. Many become influenced under likes and comments and they lose out the chance to learn, to know and to read a good article.

In my tenth standard, there was a short story about a postman who waited his whole life for his daughter.But she never came back to him to meet him atleast once after getting married. This story was a story which touched me to my core. I forgot about it later, but one day, ma recounted that story for me, and all my past memories came flooding back. This story depicts life’s truth without adding any layer or fantasy to it. Out of all the stories, I have read so far, this story stands out as a milestone, as a guide and as a remembrance for me that everything is unreal in this realistic world.

Sometimes money and time make for value in life than those who truly love and care for you.

In the same way writings also influence us in the same manner.If a person reading a book, an article, a post or any writing, can find and understand its core, then he or she would become a good reader and slowly and steadily could grow to learn and respect that subject. With good and natural writers, good and natural readers are also necessary. Day by day good readers and learners are getting reduced under the sheer volume of technology and social media. Now a days synopsis or a summary of a writing or story has more value than the original material of the writing or of the book.

A writing which has the magnitude to shake up a person’s inner self have vanished from this earth and the ones which are still remaining are often mistaken for chump change of words, wherein they are more precious than priceless diamonds waiting to be found, understood and learned upon.

Adios!

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A Light Which Never Ends At Night.

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gray scale photography of lighthouse

Light Houses are a part of every adventure and fantasy of mine, ever since Enid Blyton’s book “Five on a Treasure Island” came into my hands. In the Union Territory of Daman and Diu, I saw the big lighthouse near the sea shore. The lighthouse gives a light which helps the ships navigate and move around at night.

When the evening sun would go down, baba would take us for a short drive to the sea shore. The sea would remain calm most of the time and the waves would be at ease. The boats would have been anchored by the time of about seven to eight’ o clock in the night. The dinghies would be tied up at the shore and the waves would come and lap against them. The waves were the only thing alive in the sea at that moment. On those constantly moving waves, at a gap of about a minute or so, the light from the light house would fall.It would go round and round.

A small roll shop had newly opened up near the jetty. My father likes egg roll a lot, so he would buy an egg roll while ma and me we used to buy chicken rolls. By God’s grace chicken rolls would have eggs in it too. Yet baba used to prefer egg roll over chicken roll. I will never forget those days. What a happy time!  All you had to do was to sit on the bench, eat your roll and watch the sea. The sea being vast and endless would offer you a view or a scene which could be extended till infinity. But after few minutes it would become a bit boring to watch the sea, as there were no ships or boats to be seen on the sea at that time.

The light from the light house would keep on going round and round and for few minutes I would keep on staring at it. The light from the lighthouse would be a constant reminder that the world is always on the move. As earth never stops spinning on its axis, in the same way life also keeps on going on.

Sometimes, small things in life are constant, significant and dominant eye openers in our lives.

Adios

 

 

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Love.

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woman holding baby above head

Love is a not only cushy-mushy, cozy, cuddling or a fuzzy feeling. It is not also a commodity. Commodities are things which can be bought with money or can be traded or exchanged with some other goods.Love is eternal. Love has no definition. It is simply flawless, superbly beautiful and completely merciful.

Human minds are individuals which are completely opposite to love, when they are devoid of faith and when they do not know the self. To make it a human mind, it essentially must be able to process and experience what true love is. Many of us say-“I have experienced love.”

Often people are misled to infatuation or misgivings in the guise of love. Love is not something which can be masked. Love by default is open, free flowing and always caring.

A mother’s love is something to which even love itself surrenders. Mother’s love is supreme to God Himself. Without a mom, nothing exists in a child’s life. There are many children who have grown up to the age of being a father or a grandfather, but they still require their mother to be with them and to love them.

If love ever exists in this world, then it exists in five forms only.

  1. Mother’s love
  2. Father’s love
  3. A child’s love to his or her parents.
  4. God’s love.
  5. Couple’s love or love between husband and wife.

Out of all these categories, mother’s love stands out to be supreme, everlasting, all-merciful and evergreen and ever beautiful. It is as if God makes us all understand what love is through each one’s MA and HE gives his love to each and everyone via their own mothers. See it in a mother animal when it loves it’s offspring. It is simply awesome and amazing, when a cow loves it’s calf. When any animal be it a cow or a dog or a catterpillar or a pup gets love from it’s mother, that love is also the same with God’s love.

Ninety-nine percent human beings, try to search for love in their life partners or wherever they can find it.It maybe in a friend or in a pet animal or in anything which attracts and ensnares the attention. What they lack is love itself. Love is an ever sprouting source, just remove the lid from it and you will find your roots to it.

Love between a husband and a wife mainly sprouts from the fact that they love each other to support each other, through their faults, through their good about themselves and through their understanding of each other.This love is unknown and it mainly goes by faith, here a successful human in marriage grows extremely by sacrifice and love.Responsibility plays a very big part in it.

True love cannot be bought nor can it be sold.

A baby in a mother’s arms is the most prominent example of true love. A small baby has no understanding of the human world, but it basks, glows and grows each and every millisecond in his or her mother’s love. Love is the main food which keeps the baby healthy. The moment, a mother puts the baby in the cot, he will start crying as he wants to be in his mother’s warmth and love.

A father’s love is also true love. God’s love is superior form of true love, but when ma gives her love to her child, it is beyond the description of any word, sentence or paraphrasing, because a mother can never gauge the amount she loves her child. It is not one gram or one kilogram or one decagram or one hectogram. Nothing in any of the universes can match with it, as it comes directly from Lord Himself. It is something which even the world acknowledges. The bond between a mother and her child, is eternal, priceless,never ending and always blossoming with love.

Love is beautiful, infinite, unbounded and truly full of love. It is God’s main food, it is the food for humans, for animals and anything which exist and doesn’t exist in this sentimental, false and truly illusive world. Only love is real.

Adios!

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Standing on a bridge over the River Rhine.

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Standing on the bridge beneath which flows the river Rhine, he saw the river go by. Ducks were waddling nearby the banks of the river. Few of them even crossed the river by going across from one end to the other. The wind was at its delightful best and it was flowing with a breeze that would simply give your hairdo a touch and at the most give it a taste of its power.

Rhine being one of the legendary rivers of Germany, is a destiny and destination in itself. Many, many and many people go there and enjoy it when it is at its peak.

But, if you ever visit the river at early morning when its monsoon, you will find that the whole atmosphere is calm and quiet. You will feel that only the rain drops on the Rhine River and the river itself and only you exist.

On one such early and fine and cloudy morning, he went for a walk nearby the Rhine. After finishing the short stroll, he went and stood on the bridge over the river. From there he saw a boat which was white in colour, sailing across the Rhine.

The boat seemed to be enjoying the journey, as it was moving more slowly than a snail. Near the banks of the river, many birds could be seen, especially white coloured birds. The ducks were waddling up and down the river and the cuckoos were singing there morning lullaby. Eating a hotdog and drinking coffee, he went back home saying goodbye to the river for the day. The river was yet to rise, as it was still sleeping and the morning was still left to be explored. Before the day could actually start he went back to his home quickly as the morning chill was rising. The moment he reached home, the rain started pattering on his windows and the river Rhine was on its rise again. Within minutes, the windows became all misty and the outside weather was too foggy to see anything clearly. Only the river could be seen. If only the river could get an umbrella then it too could have slept a little bit more.

Sometimes waking up early in the morning can be really painful. On the other hand wrapping yourself up in a warm and cozy blanket and sleeping for extra two hours gives you enough energy and strength to go out of the warmth of your house and work monotonously in your office or business activities.

The next morning he again went for walk on the bridge over the river Rhine and…Rhine1.png……..the journey continues.

Rhine

Adios!

 

 

 

Bridge at Karlsruhe, image courtesy of  Ikar.us (talk) – Own work, CC BY 2.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=191945
Between Strasbourg and Kehl, image courtesy of  Szeder László – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3807189
The Rhine River Image courtesy of By St9191 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12811069