Monday, September 26, 2016

Doubt and faith and a discourse on girl friend : revisiting college days

‘What  really is doubt and what is faith/doubt creates the darkest moments in our finest hour while faith brings  the finest moments in our darkest hour’, goes a spiritual saying.
I do not know how many of you have had the darkest hours and  or solid faith.I know I am a doubting Thomas and I did not have much romance with temples    but I have had fleeting and flirting relationship with the superior plane thanks to my childhood friends. Despite my ambivalence or rather indifference I had a tremendous faith in the supreme.It might look like a contradiction but it is not because I am not for rituals and somehow anger against the creator was always lingering and there is no shyness in admitting that
 When I stood first in  BA at Tagore Arts college and state first and later after 2 years, first class and first rank at Madras presidency College ie when I was just 20 plus  I was sure that this was the magical realism of the Unseen and the divine had ordained this due to some cause and effect. Later when so many intricate and unexplainable problems did crop up I did ask the question why  Me ?  and wrote many pages of poetry and finally accepted the pain of reality.
It is not just academic or financial or domestic matter wherein I had understood the presence of the destiny ; in the most important teenage period  HE saved  me through  DR MU VA novels. And of course good child hood friends were there as protective wings. The correlation between intelligence and the sensuous side is well known and fortunately I negotiated the vicious curves and bends on the super highway of my college life away from village home. Fear and brought up were the insulators against all seductive influences.very easily I cold have gone astray  but The goodness of the universe saved me like a mother.; and the subject illed the void and it is still saving me
In our group of five man army at presidency  I was the only shy boy who did not have a girl friend. The other girls used to say .’why you have brought this samiyar also?”.I took it as a complement then and I cannot relish it now   . It was a plus point for me at that  time  but now when I type this I feel rather reluctantly that I missed something in life. What is so special about a girl Friend especially at a very young age? Those who were lucky to have one(applicable to girl also but she will not talk openly but carry the burden for ever deep into heart) can  alone know this  and ruminate over it  during old days…  I started with doubt and Faith and I feel that I have been leaning on the latter with experience and ageing process.
 Paper on the future of Euro was sent successfully with the assistance rendered by my research associate who is a banker in DELHI. Girl or family is insignificant before Macro or monetary.  It is not strictly a correct statement as I have written elsewhere Macro was more like a girl friend in a typical world of fantasy. My youngest daughter right from day one treated me as her first boy friend
Those who have treated economics dry and boring subject mistakenly (i wanted to write foolishly) will curse me and I will take it as a blessing  because they only know how love affair with eco is very difficult to handle and manage!I must thank my better half –the second wife for having abandoned me in order that I will have more time with economics.Now tamil is competing with it and both will merit attention.   Who says love will come only once?

I request my FB readers to take the last sentence rather lightly and just laugh away your problems and for that matter we shall take life as it evolves and not worry too much  because God says : I will share your burden

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