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.
..
Scar-marks of emotion: the title of a
movie “nakha kshadangal” (nail-scratch-marks)
....
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!)...
..
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').
..
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!!!)
..
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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