Sync

“I sync with him well” When I overheard this for the first time, ‘sinking in the well’ is what I was reminded of, since I was yet to get ‘sync’d’ with the modern syntax of the mobile-conversations-styles (we used to get ‘immobilized’ when we happen to listen to our elders with rapt attention, when they speak). Good, I thought, these children are able to look at that aspect so well, and in time, to be able to get along well, and accomplish great things, soon. But, when at times, they started to emphasize too much on this ‘sinking together well into the same well’, I was wondering about the well’s well-being itself.
Present day youngsters, even when they, as a rare gesture, ‘compromise’ with their parents, and concede for an arranged marriage, first check if they are in ‘sync’ with each other, or whether their ‘chemistry’ is going to match well. When they are ‘dead’ sure that their parents are not capable of cross-verifying this ‘sync’ they refuse ‘dictated’ alliances. What is the point fixing up one bullock cart wheel on a 350 CC motorbike and trying to drive it?
It is now that I wonder more about that childhood memory that reminds me of a neighbourhood ‘Uncle’ who comfortably rode his bicycle, which had developed a twist at its pedal-side sprocket. Every time he pedals, he had to give a mini-pause after one-third of the circling of the pedal, and the sprocket re-aligns with a ‘tug’ sound even, to continue the comfortable transmission of mechanical effort to the wheel sprocket (via-the-loose-chain)! I tried riding it, but had to get down to hoist the chain onto the pedal sprocket every few yards! “This bi-cycle ‘listens’ only to me, ….” He used to sermonize with a broad grin, and an air of superiority. He got himself ‘sync’d’ with that defective pedal, instead of incurring the repair-expense which was definitely burdensome on his small purse! I got my early lessons on the technology of moving towards ‘choicelessness’!
There was an advertisement for some pressure cooker, where the wife asks the hubby to visualize of everybody in the household looked like “Xerox” copies (photo-copies) of each other, the husband, wife, children, parents, cousins, friends etc. The visual-graphics in that ad said it all, about such a concept! That cannot be a good sync. Then how do we decide. What is the yardstick of a good sync? At times, the last bus just left, and it is within the reach if we can sprint up to that just-gaining-speed-bus. The wife is unable to sync with the hubby who manages to catch up despite holding luggage in both hands. Or is it that the high-heels are ‘temporarily-out-of-sync’ with the road, the situation etc?
They can argue squatting on the bare road-side, casting allegations that the wife could never produce a well-synchronized side dish for the main course on a dining table for breakfast, lunch etc. The wife could in turn allege that he could never manage to take leave from work when there was a good movie in that ‘decent’ theatre nearby, and invariably got leave only when there was dull movie. Even if everything ‘seems’ to go too well, the wife would remind in the middle of the movie “did you turn off that water tap, at home?” …. And then, it is the end of the ‘entertainment’ value of that movie.
Ask any child if their parents are well sync’d, and we can be rest assured of wholesome entertainment with humorous incidents.
Even at work place, or when in a queue at public places, we seldom find things ‘well synchronized’. Even those planners of violence have their main worry, that the ‘timers’ are not well-synchronised, and goes off at wrong moment, either before or after the presence of the targeted VIP!
But troubles are well synchronised, of course, by themselves, amongst themselves, and for themselves.
Therefore, it is not surprising when somebody asks about one’s own ambitions, goals, attitudes, achievements etc, whether ‘at least’ they are in tune and synchronised.
A child, who is joyous for no apparent reason, cannot even grasp this question. True, the child is yet to become ‘mature’ enough, or to know well about self. When do we really start bothering about this ‘in-sync’? When things don’t feel okay with us, or when everything seems fine? Please try to look at people, who we find rarely in pleasant mood. We don’t even have to ask them about this sync. Their very conversation is usually about a long list of un-sync’d items.
There was a time, when the ‘head’ of the family surprised the women folk producing a saree or so that was instantly and invariably liked very much. Now, ‘matching’ a garment is more complex than assembling the right-matching-components for a spacecraft designed to reach up to Jupiter.
For my part, I know too well, how difficult it is to ‘sync’ my views with the taste of the readers! So, that is how it is.
Psn(6th April, 2010)


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Do you think ambitions , abilities , attitudes and achievements are always in tune and synchronised ?

My answer:
Usually not.A driver's eyes, ears, hands, and then the steering wheel, engine's piston, valves, brake drum, alignment of wheels, speed, the curvature of the road, the surface, the pedestrian crossing, the signals, etc all are seldom in synchrony. That is why, when flying we keep the aircraft at such great distances from each other. There is more of traffic jams in air than on road surface. We did not spare even the immediate outer space, having littered the whole circle with junk of used satellites, making even space travel perilous!

Ancient people realized this deep enough, and did not bother about that "technological" advancement without first bringing the body-mind-breath into perfect synchrony. Now having achieved that the lucky few never felt the need to explore any other advancement! And others around had sufficient reason to trust these few Great Masters. That is how we can find the "accounting" for that mystic lack of technological advancement despite far far superior intelligence of the ancient masters! Even today, the best of people (intelligence wise) have consciously opted for simple life personally. That is evidence good enough, if we are really serious about getting synchronised.