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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Foot Prints of Emotion


Foot prints of 'communication-skill'... A place came to be known as 'Kalady' foot-prints... 'effectively' requested the river 'poorna' to follow his foot prints..... up to the hut from where his ailing-plus-aged mother could reach the water easily for her daily bath, etc.
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Scar-marks of emotion: the title of a movie “nakha kshadangal” (nail-scratch-marks)
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And decorative footprints of emotion!

It happened thus....
The erratic power failure forced me to choose the 'dark hours' to upgrade the operating system of my PC. And the assurance was too many power-cuts preceding the 'spiritual-luxury-hours' (11 pm...). When the power got restored, I gave a rude shock to my spouse, when I jumped out of the bed, and announced to her quizzical look(meaning 'now what?')... saying “looks like, the power will be on till another 5 hours... good enough to take a risk, and try an uninterrupted upgradation” (privately, I had a hidden-agenda.... it was quite some time, since I had a whole night to enjoy that 'awareness'.... the monitor requires very little attention... just like some baby-sitting, with a baby that cant even crawl!).... I had been doing the manual fanning for both of us(with that humble palm leaf), since the ceiling fan remained 'sealed' during the power cut... Every spell of powercut renewed the quarrel afresh..... it was about(my) disinclination towards resorting to dependence on 'gadgets' in lieu of power , during its failure..... and somehow, I have barely managed to postpone the 'going-in' for those 'cooling-gadgets'... I found that any electrical gadget that is used to cool, ends up in heating the ecology with twice the negative-heat-energy..... (Dharmo rakshati rakshitaha... or something to that effect... is the sole straw I can hope to hold on to, when people around drown me with arguments, case-laws-of-instances around, to the contrary!)...

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At about 4 am, the new system looked entirely 'new'! I was wondering... why this 'impressive', 'ornamental-and-decorative' presentation! The previous three upgrades were humble... the menus, in the same place, and we can just click without reading the icon... Now, the pull at the scroll bar brings the list of icons to the lowest position, and even gives an 'emotional-touch' with that gentle bump, like the kids enjoy jumping onto an over-stuffed sofa-set-seat! A lot of attention was paid towards the 'presentation of the dishes on the dining table'!....
If I had not been familiar with 'an experience itself', I would have missed that 'emotional footprints ' that I could see on the monitor , of that penultimate-of-the-latest version of operating system!... Somewhere around 1991, I was pushed into 'becoming familiar with a personal-computer'... most of us (the participants) to that 10-weeks-course had presumed that the primitive ones we had just seen at our work place was 'company-owned-computers' and not 'personal-computers'! (that pre-concluding logic at work.... see!)... We were thrilled that we even were found fit to learn 'programming'!... It was just a few basic commands under the earliest of the DOS versions, using that large double density floppy! The teacher was anxious that our attention should not get 'fragmented' (in the name of getting 'divided'), and therefore insisted that we 'write' simple programs, to produce results of simple arithmatic functions... Initially, to some of us it sounded 'needlessly-cumbersome' to 'get data', add it, etc... using lengthy lines of commands, when all it needed was to pull out the pocket calculator, punch the figures, and a + sign in between....
I earned a nick-name(during that 10-week-course) ....' user-friendly-narayanan'... when the program that I churned out had those additional 'echo' on the screen to prompt the user to 'do' exactly 'this and then this...' to get the results... Others barely managed with a program, which required the users to 'do what ever it takes!'... to get a result... These people, the bulk of these 'others', were my bosses at work place (it was almost a 'punishment-plus-fine' to attend this evening course at a distant place away from office, and ........ yesss... an extra-distance towards home too.. but that was after we were fully depleted of energy at the end of the 'class').
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I had already 'gone-through' that emotional 'layout' as to how it feels, when we manage to do a job effortlessly (with a thorough grasp of the basic concepts),..... in a contrast to most others, who 'somehow' manage to churn out a just-workable-result!.... The earlier versions had scope for many improvements... Yahoo was simply beyond reach (the best part is, there were hundreds of 'other-valid-excuses' to justify this non-availability)... but this later version simply 'looked' beyond the normal scope of perception! The sense of joy, the elation of having accomplished at churning out a good software, the sense of satisfaction of having arrived at a really good model of upgradation 'must-have-been' the source of inspiration for this extra-efforts at decorating the dish on the dining table! (The best part is, the best brains have contributed to creating this software and made it available 'free' for the global-computing-community... cutting across all border-lines.... not just our 'political-party-lines!!!)
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A rare example of how the body-language migrates into an animated-gesture on an otherwise inanimate screen! (It did remind me of the 'designing' of the 'program' called 'rangoli' .... the decorating of the centre-place of the front-yard... It takes a deep perception to look at the powdered rice as 'beyond-a-charity' towards those ants that feed on it(do ants really need our charity?).... then we may notice that ants have a deeper grasp of gravity-concept.. they carry a weight many times of their own... Still deeper perception affords a look at the very same ants as 'dependable-local-weatherman'!.... That 'charity' feeling robs us of our ability to realise that there are a few beggers who look at this rangoli design, and then decide to beg for food by choice, out of compassion... for example, that 'I am atma brahma' who asked a few questions out of sheer compassion, by choice, in that 'dharma-related-blog'( http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/self-improvement/dharma-as-i-understand-and-would-like-to-practice ).... these 'few' beggars were indeed 'choosers' (a contrast to 'beggars can't be choosers')... they did not beg out of need (they could invoke that unique secretion from pituitary glands, which would obviate the need for food).... they read the 'profile' of the 'lady' of that house, updated vide the rangoli of that morning, and decide to accept food by begging!)

psn(6th June, 2012)

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