'Tea or coffee?'
I was asked, and I tried
it thus (once, long ago...): Both!
And I could get to see a
'bewildered look' in the eyes of the host as well as others present!
(What I chose, not to tell them was... I even tried mixing both,
very privately and it tasted unique... I was not too sure, if it is
good to do so often, and hence dropped the idea... not
'my-pattern'...)
....
It amused me often to look
at people around as patterns, with the same basic human-design! While
animals derive a pattern according to the situation, plants undergo
modification at 'design' levels even retaining hard to retain the
basic design (for instance, we are advised to 'try' that cucumber,
which looks same, but some are bitter... and if we do not
'test-taste' the whole salad gets spoiled!)...
Men usually go for plain
or 'checks', parallel lines etc for shirts, and even pants/trousers
at times, while trying to keep the latter ones in dark shades
usually... It is the patterns of ladies that calls for 'selection'
when they decide upon going in for something 'new'... (I tried a
shirt out of a beautiful design called something like 'forest-fire'
from a 'saree-material' by a branded name, Garden Vareli .. I had a
very tough time, to get the 'permission' from my bossing-spouse, to
even buy that piece of cloth! The shirt looked great, and was liked
by all the colleagues, not because of its pattern itself... more
because I looked very comical in that shirt, and as long as they are
not wearing such funny stuff, they do not mind appreciating or
applauding it!.. Now it is lying beneath a large heap of old
shirts, though not at all worn-out... There is a tension around the
house, ... Yes, the moment I name that shirt, our home becomes a
house... 'house of commons' like, and sparks are in the offing
already! I am 'allowed' to wear it only when I go out to meet
'non-issue' kind of people, that too 'patlee-gali-sey' ... I still
am a fan of that design... err... pattern!)...
In general, men are after
'logical-patterns' and women find appeal in 'non-logical' ones (what
ever that means!)....
Army changes the pattern
of thinking of a fresh recruit, only then he becomes a soldier ....
A bride struggles to fit
into the life-pattern of the new house-hold, that she seeks to
'become-one-with'...
The work-pattern of an
organisation doesn't 'feel' comfortable, for a fresher, and he is
confused, into trying to find out 'what went wrong with my choice of
office?' (That is, if he is already not into that blame-game-pattern
of thinking as to 'who is to be blamed?'....)
Coffee after dinner is a
craving due to acquired craving-pattern of the physical body... (The
'asking' for 'quality-decoction-coffee' and its different
'standards' varies according to the 'craving-pattern', when we look
at the two instances: First coffee after brushing of teeth, and last
coffee after dinner!).
A kid is consciously
en-grooved into a pattern of induced-sleep, by a mom, when she places
a specific thing/object like some towel, particular-doll/cloth, and
only then the kid sleeps soon... this pattern comes handy to
'boast' that 'only I can make that kid sleep without fuss, and in a
very brief time'!)... Somebody makes a 'chance-discovery' of a
better pattern, which the kid takes an 'instant' liking for, and the
mom is disturbed out of her own mind-pattern, and only manages a
'grim-face'.. not knowing how to 'explain' this pattern-spoil that
happened all of a sudden!...
Music-pattern of certain
experts finds an instant-liking with the masses, and we find people
claiming, “I hear 'a broken piece of tune' and I know at once, it
is Naushad Saheb”... signature-pattern!.. Anger pattern,
emotion-pattern, waking-pattern... the list is endless!
Spirituality seeks to take
our 'being' out of this pattern-web, and then afford us to enjoy all
the patterns, choicelessly! (Meanwhile, there are sets of
'life-positive' patterns, and life-negative patterns... and the
situation decides better, which of the choices makes our life to
crawl, or glide smoothly!)
Patternedly yours,
psn (3rd November, 2013)
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