More pencil sharpenings...

Received this in mail from Shaheen, who has been one of the biggest influencers and sharpeners in my life .

The most important lesson for me in this, is the Lesson no. 5....

allowing myself to be guided ....always resistant to that :)


A PENCIL MAKER TOLD THE PENCIL 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS JUST BEFORE PUTTING IT IN THE BOX :

1.) EVERYTHING YOU DO WILL ALWAYS LEAVE A MARK .

2.) YOU CAN ALWAYS CORRECT THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE.

3.) WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS WHAT IS INSIDE OF YOU.

4.) IN LIFE , YOU WILL UNDERGO PAINFUL SHARPENINGS, WHICH WILL ONLY MAKE YOU BETTER.

5.) TO BE A PENCIL, YOU MUST ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE HELD AND GUIDED BY THE HAND THAT HOLDS YOU.

We all need to be constantly sharpened.

The huge LCD TV just conked off....

As suddenly as it had come in our life, the 51" LCD TV just decided to close shop one day, and stopped working!

Naturally we were all  upset, felt cheated ...all that talk about the gadget being in the warranty period...'These multinational brands do not maintain the quality in Indian market' etc. etc.

I called the Service Center for a check up ; the surly service guy landed home after numerous follow-up and announced ,"Rs. 20,000 ....for the tube replacement!"

Obviously , it did not make sense...and Oh Yes! We had just missed the warranty period by One month...(not that the tube was covered in the warranty)

Metamorphosis in our lives post this departure  was amazing....



Dining table once again became alive with conversations and silly fights ....about homework and maids and delayed flights and pot holed roads and ....heart breaks !

Guests were welcomed with attention and connection, not just glazed look and  the silent pleas of 'why-don't-you-go-now-I-want-watch-what-happens-in-the-next-episode-of-my-soap!'

As much as my thumb missed the mindless pressing of the remote...we all became aware of each other again !

I also  realised how uneasy I was with the morning silence, which had earlier been filled with morning BREAKING news cacophony!

Strange, how a gadget had so insidiously crept in and changed the fabric of our lives, or rather we had allowed it to !