Life always offers us choices, they say. We need to choose the best or at least the most appropriate one for us.
While employing our best reason in making our choice, we sometimes need a guide or may be a Mantra.
My child has one.
In making choices, the Mantra goes like, “Akkad Bakkad Bombai bo…assi nabbai poore sau…” the next few lines you know!
Her life’s dilemma is solved by this potent Mantra. Be it for choosing the book she wants me to read to her at bedtime, be it for deciding on the chronology of all the books she wants me read to her one by one or for negotiating which one she will read and which are the ones her dad has to; the "Akkad bakkad….” has the potential to facilitate a nuclear deal!
The other day she was romanticizing whether the world would be an all-princess one or an all-spider-man one. She employed the "Akkad Bakkad....". The Mantra’s forecast was that the world will be an all-princess one. Yes, ours is!
The Mantra has the flexibility for negotiation too. If you have a particular decision already made in mind, you can decide where to start the count from. The age old practice has proved that there is nothing wrong in manipulation! Also, you can, if you want to, count again and again until serendipity brings forth the right choice.
So, as our child continues to decide between ‘dosa’ and ‘sandwich’, ‘shoe’ or ‘sandal’, ‘frock’ or ‘capri’, I ask my hubby if she would choose the man in her life with equal ease and make our life as easy!
After all, she is so liberal in offering us choices. Beat it: while playing the chess, she offers, “Kaun se colour ke sikke logey? Kyunki main toh white loongee”
Anindita
24 March 2010
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Lovely...
ReplyDeleteSo sweet. She is innocent so its easy for her to make choice, no aage ki soch no peche ki soch.
ReplyDeleteIf only we could also take decisions this way.... life would have been very easy.
beatiful...anin..
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