My unconscious mind suddenly revolted. The phenomenon was
out of ordinary. I had been sleeping or rather lazying on my bed for the whole
morning hours.... I was alone and had very little to do. With a wish in my
heart, I went out to endeavour the thrue baab festivities...friends, knowns,
unknowns, young, old, joyous or otherwise. Hi there! Happy blessed rainy day...I
threw this typical greetings generously like a machine gun bursts. Followed by
more snipers ones bit classified liners....hows your thrue celebration? What
have you got for this day? What special for the rainy day? I almost from
everyone got the same synchronised answers. Or the statement I least attended
for a reason of common conversation.....I had pork..I had fish...i had
beef....and the list of animals keeps on inflating with parts, garnishes or
cooking processes. Pigs, cows, yaks, bulls, calfs, chickens, eggs, legs,
intestines, heads, ribs, bones, skins, fresh or stinking, local or exotic,
large or small....it has to be meat, flesh or bones. I saw meat venders smiling
out of their face....I saw some people birding and almost shouting their
frustration...no meat and it spoiled my table...Then the liquid part of the
day....alcohol. We drink alcohol without inhibition, young, old equally. We drink
by shots, we gobble by bottles and we beinge in by jerry-cans! Then we
advertise the dutchness in us....world contracts all of a sudden, people become
lilliputens and he becomes Guliver in distorted conscience. The last episode
thoe is our art of playing games. We have beautiful games khuru (technically dart:-),
archery and degor(pelting of flat doughnought like stones:-) and all these
sports are dangerous if played in a fluid state. But in occassions like today
we do take it fatally. It would not be a surprise if someone somewhere gets
strewn by the arrow missiled by a compound bow....another Arjuna ambaressed,
another Robinwood missed his eye! And I bounced back to my room just to
confront myself in lone. I was contemplating over the post that someone beautiful....that
this thrue baab is to cleanse ourselves of our bad deeds, bad luck and bad
karma...its a super holyday....its a super auspicious day to earn merit.
Practically our celebration boils down to killings of animals, drawning in alcohol
and display of vanity in air. Thus, I fought with my consciousness that we
celebrate with tender lives. That innocent animal made my day a big hyped
celebration. Spritually what I did throughout the day is In direct negation to
what I should have done. One lost his family the other packed his
family.....but I bathed in a hope to cleanse my bad karma, I decorated my table
with whatever carcass I could hunt, I swam in the pool of alcohol, I ate with
my family and friends and I played khuru.....as day draws in, I am already
nostalgic about my holy shower!
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