Of late, the fashion seems
to have faded out.. 'saying : “Thanking you in anticipation, yours
faithfully”... and the advice was, to use these phrases,
'especially' to government officials, who turn down a request, quite
whimsically, with no one around to question them! Power is in their
hands (not just discretion, or the sanctioning authority... raw
power!)... So, thank you is a 'caution-deposit' and non-refundable!
I would try to dramatise,
and imagine, as to how this 'anticipation-wala-thankyou' would have
taken birth?
Next door uncle: “Beta...
yeh lo... chaak-late/chocolate... khaa jao... eato/eat”
Kid: stares blank, for a
while, and even blinks!
Dad: “le lo uncle pyaar
se de rahe hain..”
(Kid, wonders,...
chocolate wrapper ke andar sirf chocolate hota hai.. yeh pyar kahaan
include hai packing mei?)... but anyway, he blurts.. “Tan-kooo”..
Now there is no shortage
of any 'interpretor'... Dad, “Thank you bol raha hai... bachha hai
na!” (now, whatever it means, that.. 'bachha hai na'... if it
were an adult, 'you had it'!!!)
Next day, the same
'next'door wala uncle...
The kid is looking at his
palms... it is open! No chocolate! Jaane doe... But what about
'tan-koo'?, he wonders!... Aaj kal, advance payment ka procedure aa
gaya hai kya?...
By chance, if that kid
says, a 'tan-koo'... no chocolate... still a tan-koo... woh uncle
ka baaja baj gaya.. KOoooo.. he doesn't know what to do with that
'bribe after retirement?'
We teach 'gratitude' +
'humility'... like we teach, 'Beta don't fall' when we find suddenly
that this kid has climbed up a tall tree, and calls
'de-ko'/de-kho/whatever... We do not have the knees and bones to
climb up and rescue... we are shy of calling 'fire-service' (they
have that-kind-of-ladder, though there is no 'actually-fire' or a
'duplicate-fire'..!)... We shout: Beta, don't fall... do-not-fall!
(shaayad, at that height,, he can't read that coma after the “don”,
the don-'-t ...).. He does not know how to give-effect to the
command, 'do not fall'! It feels almost like that empty-thank you!
Bol tou diya hai... (kuch hua kya?.. abhi tou nahi.. abhi tou
nahi.. wala song!)..
Instead, .. may be,
something like “Hold tight”.. he, knows, 'exactly' what to do...
he keeps-holding tight, not waving Ta-Ta... Birla etc.. As a
consequence, that 'don't fall' is ato-matic/automatic... Later, he
might even remember, and feel gratitude, “Hey bhagwaan, aap ne sirf
ek baap hi nahi, usko thoda sa brain bhi diya hai!” (warna... bulk
of upadesh, would be 'unable to carry out wala... Matru devo
bhava... the pitaaji says, treat-mom-as-God?.. Arey! I feel like
mata-ko-devour bhawa... she keeps shifting blame for even her own
forgetfulness on me!.. Even the dad has not seen a God, and here he
is giving upadesh, treat-mom-like-God?.. even the prashaad, has to
be mom-manufactured, not me... gas lighter ko haat nahi lagaana, is
the warning... aur mujhe paanv/leg se sulgaana aata hi nahi!)...
The kid grows...
Somewhere, he learns... either of the two things.... This humility
is a mere show-business, and unless, there is a
useless/meaningless-Thank you.. it cannot sail through into that
other-fellow's brain!.. Another possibility: A bit rare one.. He
understands, that he-understands-the-hollowness of such a Tan-koo...
and this 'understanding of such-understanding' was due to a human
birth! He feels grateful to rab/uparwala/whatever! (By now, he is
sure,, the dad and mom are just yet-another-assembly of machines that
manufactured him, and not their skill, in his birth!)... Possibly,
he evolves, and deepens his perception... He becomes aware of of
'beings' who even refuse to show any 'id-proof'.. and yet they
support him, during his empty-cup-wala-state, during meditations,
usually! Now a 'new kind of 'thank you' that doesnt seem to really
suffice, a new sense of gratitude, that seems too tiny.. so the
question of 'email-id' doesn't even arise... Maybe a few tears roll
down!..
He tries to share.. Most
likely that others mock, saying, 'You hallucinate'... He doesn't
protest... He humbly says, 'Maybe you are right!.. I might have
merely hallucinated...”... He checks within... He is not
too-sure.. But, it works! If fortunate, it 'occurs to him'.. this
hallucination, is a 'win-win' one.. the after effects do stay..
after-effects do not need a hefty-fee to a psychiatrist, in fact, it
keeps me away from him!... The residues of 'common cases' of
hallucination doesn't tally here!..
He goes on 'speculating'
thus... And maybe, another problem of a new source of gratitude for
him... But that is his problem, (though a fictional story of
mine)!...
Fictionally yours,
psn (24th December, 2014)
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