Santhosh's ramblings

A casual conversation with a car driver and a friend in his early 50’s.   “Saahbji, a few years back when some baby is born or a marriage occurs or something like that happens in my extended family and friends, we will go with a small present (We do not have much) but spend time with them. Today, I do a video call and pass some money by G pay and tell them, but a present for the child or whoever it is”.   “I have only one sister and she stay in the same city. Earlier I would go and meet them at least two or three times a month, take some food or chocolates for her children. We still have a good relationship, but in the last one year we haven’t met face to face. We have video calls and I pass some money to her to buy chocolate for their children”.   “There was time when I used to look forward for the board meetings of our organization. All the members will drive and come, and while the meeting is going on, we drivers have a great time together, and we became close friends,...

I learnt a new phrase today (or rather coined). “Audacious Audacity”. It is like “double whammy” – a situation in which two bad conditions exist at the same time or two bad things happen one after the other.  But amid this, people have the audacity to have an audacious belief that things will work out fine!    There is a beautiful story in the Good Book. A meeting between a prophet and a widow. It goes like this… "Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land". “So the Prophet got up and went to Zarephath. As he came to the entrance of the village he met a woman, a widow, gathering firewood. He asked her, “Please, would you bring me a little water in a jug? I need a drink.” As she went to get it, he called out, “And while you’re at it, would you bring me something to eat?    She said, “I swear, as surely as your   God   lives, I don’t have so much as a biscuit. I have a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in ...