Pehle aap

“Let that girl continue, I shall drop out” volunteered a kid, barely 10 years old!

And the girl must be not over even 7...

These two were the left out ones, when one of them had to face an elimination, at a reality-show, where tiny-tots were shown competing as 'super singer'...

It caught my attention! Something not so common!

Even in a bus, I do find somebody offering 'pehle aap' wala gesture, when a seat suddenly gets vacant, in that crowd... My impulsive response would have been to park my bottom in a great urgency.. but that gesture from the other, whose bottom was so close to the surface of the seat, did not try to compete, and instead, rose a little higher, figuratively hitting the low roof of that bus even, it did touch me... and I now got a choice, to extend this offer to a next fellow, heavily laden with bags, etc, struggling to hold on to the steel bar.. He felt sheepish, being too young, but I reassured him, his luggage is 'now'..... a 'more-senior-citizen' than me! He liked the 'idea', smiled a bit gracefully too!

I felt, 'not so bad after all! There are such people here and there!'...

The judges of that reality show could not stay far behind, when these two kids did that game of 'pehle aap/pehle aap' for a while.... They said, “no elimination today!” ..

“Hey!” , I felt.... “Reverberations of AAP effect ? This way? .. Here too? (it was a Malayalam channel, far south... while the AAP effect was heavily complicated, being already too complex, and it was not any 'pehle-aap' factor, but sheer compulsions of ..... unpredictable-apprehensions... that might have persuaded the Dilli-rulers to postpone a hasty 'administrative' action of pulling down the erring AAP wala!!!)..

Anyway... it is worth risking that 'pehle aap' gesture, where the stakes are not too high! Instead of trying to grab anything and everything, with a 'pehle mai'' or 'mai-hi-mai'!!! Even that alphabet 'A' , makes an appearance only after “Nine Hundred Ninety Nine” juniors as a “thousAnd” ..... when we look at.... one, two, three, etc......

(But yes, when it is about refining oneself,... let us not wait, till everybody around becomes, nice, and only then to extend that graceful gesture of being nice to others! Are we going to be the last fool to get reformed? Here, better to jump the queue!... I tried, I keep trying.. I get snubbed, at times painfully exploited too, but it is great fun.. for I know, whether it is profit or losses, we write off everything, right here before we go, empty as usual!).

Yours too, or Too-yours,

psn (24th January, 2014)