Guess what ? I saw a lady walking out of the park as I completed my first round of walking in the park. You may wonder what is so special about it. It happens to me every other day. But this one was different. I could guess seeing from behind from her that I know her. More importantly, there was some thing written at the back on her trousers. The word "guess" in small English alphabets, "boldly". As she walked, the "g" at the left and "s" at the right extreme elegantly moved up and down, alternatively. Let me not describe or criticize this more. After all in this free world everybody has the freedom to express - wherever, whenever and whatever ! At least that innocent action of hers helped me to choose a topic for discussion today !!
Yesterday was Vishu festival. When we were young nephews and nieces, a lots of them, our as many uncles used to give us "Vishu kaineetam" (tips) early in the morning on Vishu day. We used to guess whether it would be a 10 paise or 25 paise coins. Now those uncles keep guessing as where these nephews have gone and where those tiny coins vanished. And I guess the nephews/nieces of those days have become uncles/aunts of one or two nephews/nieces who do not enjoy such small tips!
I strongly feel that my habit of guessing will never end.
When I was a small child, I used to guess what would be special for the breakfast that day, Idli or Dosa !
As I grew up, academics caught up. I always used to guess how much I will score in the exams. Especially those subjects like "social studies" which I hated to study. I used to compute and recompute the possible marks for the essay type questions to arrive at a guesstimate after each exam to my satisfaction level. And I would guess more when I used to get those unexpectedly low marks.
Then I became a "handsome" youth, the guess was more on what type of girl I would get as my life partner. Kept guessing what would be her likes and dislikes. After so many years of marriage, all I do is - keep guessing ! I am sure my wife is in a much similar state, no need for me to guess in this case !!
My professional life kept me guessing through out. When would I get my next promotion? When would I get a decent pay hike? I used to see in the news paper that industry can expect up to 15% pay hike that year. Till the pay hike is announced for me, I used to guess that I would get 14.99% if not the whole 15%. Once I come to know my hike, that its in single digits - my focus on guessing will shift to looking at those a very few happy faces around me who would have got double digits hikes !!
After all this continuous guessing in life, is it going to stop now? Never. Now I am guessing as how long I will live on this earth and what will I do after that !!
While these tough guesses do always baffle my mind, I should thank my "morning" friend for helping me in easing a bit. By inscribing nice, apt words on her track suit. I wish that "g" and "s" continue to happily swing up and down for her. For ever !
Yesterday was Vishu festival. When we were young nephews and nieces, a lots of them, our as many uncles used to give us "Vishu kaineetam" (tips) early in the morning on Vishu day. We used to guess whether it would be a 10 paise or 25 paise coins. Now those uncles keep guessing as where these nephews have gone and where those tiny coins vanished. And I guess the nephews/nieces of those days have become uncles/aunts of one or two nephews/nieces who do not enjoy such small tips!
I strongly feel that my habit of guessing will never end.
When I was a small child, I used to guess what would be special for the breakfast that day, Idli or Dosa !
As I grew up, academics caught up. I always used to guess how much I will score in the exams. Especially those subjects like "social studies" which I hated to study. I used to compute and recompute the possible marks for the essay type questions to arrive at a guesstimate after each exam to my satisfaction level. And I would guess more when I used to get those unexpectedly low marks.
Then I became a "handsome" youth, the guess was more on what type of girl I would get as my life partner. Kept guessing what would be her likes and dislikes. After so many years of marriage, all I do is - keep guessing ! I am sure my wife is in a much similar state, no need for me to guess in this case !!
My professional life kept me guessing through out. When would I get my next promotion? When would I get a decent pay hike? I used to see in the news paper that industry can expect up to 15% pay hike that year. Till the pay hike is announced for me, I used to guess that I would get 14.99% if not the whole 15%. Once I come to know my hike, that its in single digits - my focus on guessing will shift to looking at those a very few happy faces around me who would have got double digits hikes !!
After all this continuous guessing in life, is it going to stop now? Never. Now I am guessing as how long I will live on this earth and what will I do after that !!
While these tough guesses do always baffle my mind, I should thank my "morning" friend for helping me in easing a bit. By inscribing nice, apt words on her track suit. I wish that "g" and "s" continue to happily swing up and down for her. For ever !
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