Take time!

Dear Sunitha
Now that's a new twist to my story!
I think that you should henceforth stand behind the TV and talk to him!
Or stand in front of it to make him impatient!
Sri

Dear Cheeniya sir,

Another good one, another one that makes us think!

A few years back, I watched an Oprah show with Maya Angelou, in which Maya talks about the comfort of 'taking time'.The word she used was 'piddling'. Now, I am sure it is easy for Maya with her rock Zen garden and multiple housestaff to piddle at 8am. For poor Vidya, with three lunch boxes to pack, piddling is a luxury, an acquired taste. Still, taking time is the best gift we women can give ourselves in a day. When I did an Art of Living course, we were told to live in the moment. Live in the current experience, soaking the moment like a hungry sponge eagerly drinking the experience- that is one good way to spend a moment.

I like the simple narrative style you use. To average out my praise (my salute as is mocked in high circles), you did take time to get to the point with the parable of the comely Ms Moneypenny Corporate. Still, we never can have enough of Cheeiya sir's works.

Did I ever thank you for such great pieces? Here goes, thank you Cheeniya, you rock and roll!

regards
Vidya

Dear Vidya
The concept of Eternal Now of the Sufis is very dear to me! We have lost the art of living at the moment. We let it slip by unnoticed being preoccupied with the moment already gone and apprehension of the moment to come. Now is the time. This very moment! It wont come again

You know Vidya, you have no idea of the stress you create in me! To be able to live upto the image that you have conjured up of me in your mind is something that is giving me the flutter in my stomach! But what is life without challenges!
Thanks awfully, dear girl! Just stay there and keep clapping your little hands for this old man to perform better and better
Sri

Cheeniya sir,

A bit pensed to know that I contribute to (also) your stress level. And I am really no lil girl in smocks and pink ribbons, clapping gleefully. Nor are you a thondu kizham. I am an aspiring writer myself, with two unfinished books stagnating at three chapters each. And once I had an agent who was my husband's friend-now thanks to my (non) writing skills, he is neither my agent nor my husband's friend.

Now that we have that all placed- please tell me more abt the Eternal Moment of the Sufis. I once saw the Dervishes in Istanbul- one palm upturned to receive the blessings of the universe, one palm down to earth to channel the blessings. It was one sublime moment- in fact one I soaked fully into my psyche.

regards
Vidya

Dear Vidya
Not Eternal Moment but Eternal Now. It is a spiritual exercise that is aimed at elongating the Now into an Eternal one. The past and present all merge into the Now almost akin to what Jiddu used to tell us about.
I shall write about it in detain under Religion and Spirituality
Sri

Mr.Cheeniya,

Wonderful.How true.We are so busy in our lives.that we fail to notice the beauties of nature.Great one.regards.kamal

Dear Kamalji
Many people tend to confuse taking time with a laidback approach. There are subtle differences though. But then I am not averse to a laid back style either.
With contraptions that can store over 2000 lilting songs and the uninterrupted supply of premium scotch in the market, I prefer just to close my eyes and be there in the loneliest parts of our globe!
sri