June 08 '05

Blessings........

Today is the "reopening day" after summer vacation for a number of schools in Chennai. My husband's nephew came home early in the morning, to seek the blessings of his grandparents on the first day of school. how nostalgic did I feel?

Unlike others who seek the blessings of their parents and other elders at home on a daily basis, we do it only on important occasions like birthdays, school reopening days or when the real need comes. An appearance to an examination, expecting the results of it, attending an interview or a client call or a bug that remains unfixed in the code making the blood pressure overshoot 200 mm of mercury, promptly ring the bell to remind us that we need to get the blessing of our parents.

Also, there are sentiments associated when we get the blessings. The blessings from parents have never betrayed us. So even before we seek the blessings, we usually provide the list on what they should wish us ;-))

As per Murphy's laws, the chapter that was left unread, will pop its ugly head in the paper in 2 questions, forcing us to choose atleast one of them. Rather than blaming ourselves for not preparing well, the blame is conveniently moved to amma for not coming out of the house & waving a good bye when we turned at the street corner on the way to school for writing the exam.

Not even that, she usually has to listen to us, when we fail to wake up early in the morning before dad leaves for office. "Amma, Why did u not wake me up? C, I did not get the sacred ash from appa. I dont know what shall happen to me in the exam!!!"

After the exams, when we discuss the answers with parents, the way in which the logic struck at the last moment and the problem got solved easily - be it in the "bode plot of control system" or "interupt handling in the microprocessor" or "the fourier transform in the maths paper" , the success is always attributed to their prayers. The gleam of joy is radiant in their eyes!!

Is it b'cos they see history repeating itself except that their roles have changed?