Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Remembering my idol..

Yesterday, it was the death anniversary of my Dada ji, my paternal grandfather.
It has been 11 long years, since the day all our lives changed.
It was the year that, actually changed me as a person also. I had never experienced death so close to me.

I think that whatever little sanity that I have in me is thanks to my Dadu, and the fact that I think that I am a princess is also thanks to him.
He would never let me go to the kitchen, or be around things that were dangerous.
He used to take my to India International Center, for absolutely delightful lunches and fancy dinners in their dining hall, where kids were hardly allowed. I was always asked to behave like a lady. Till today, if by any fortune I get to go there, a lump always forms in my throat, remembering the great years of being simple and loving.
The fact that we used to go out of the city for "Summer Vacations", was also thanks to him. He loved to take us for holidays all over the northern part of the country.
He loved weddings. And my mum loves weddings. There is no second guessing, why I just LOVE weddings.

I never saw him raising his voice or his hands at any of his grand children, I have never heard that he did that to his children either. He had friends that were always for life. He wrote letters. Was fascinated by an electronic typewriter and absolutely amazed at "Cut, Copy & paste" feature in the computers.

No one in any corner of my immediate family or extended family on any side ever criticized him.. all of us have such fond memories of the times that we have had with him.

And, trust me when I say that, he probably would have been over the moon seeing me getting married.

I miss him.
And one of the thoughts that provoked me to write about him was..  (he used to always tell me to calm down ;))



A CUP OF COFFEE
An interesting fact of physics:

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Hardly seems worth it, does it?
It is a supposed fact of physics but also a corollary of spirit.

Most fussing, yelling, and cursing causes far more harm than good and usually isn’t worth the effort. All of the good it does over the years probably isn’t worth a cup of hot coffee.

The next time you are inclined to huff and puff and blow off steam by raising your voice with five minutes of yelling at something or someone, remember with another 8 years, 7 months, 5 days,
23 hours and 55 minutes of yelling, you could have a cup of hot java.
Is the hot cup of coffee worth stirring up with anger? 

Coffee doesn’t hear you. People do. And it only takes one second of yelling to heat them up.

Keep your cool, coffee is not the only thing that’s ground up

3 comments:

Alka Gurha said...

Grandparents are special. Sometimes we realize this after they are gone. My grand dad taught me to write my first essay in school.

Divya said...

My grandfather is alive but at present bed-ridden....I've often seen a lot of my friends talk about how close they were/are to their grandparents...Unfortunately, that has never been the case with me. I remember my grandpa being a strict disciplinarian but ever since he fell sick, his strong persona is so missed in the house!

I have some memories with my grandpa that I really cherish - I remember him dropping me to my play-school as a child and every time I got results, he would see my report-card - congratulate me or encourage me to do better :) :) :)

I guess, every relationship is special and grandparents do occupy an important stature in all our lives for they were always around during our formative years, pampering us and spoiling us while our parents were busy disciplining us :P

Arooj said...

nice to hear about such strong relationship with elders.