A Fatal Blow!

@Viswamitra
My dear Viswa
Which part of the world are you in now? I keep watching the road for your visit until my eyes start watering. Bad boy!

Life support is the right word. Only regular watchers of TV serials would understand the import of the phrase. When the villainous woman sends her henchman to pull out the oxygen supply from the nose of the critically ailing mother of the heroine, my heart would jump out of my chest!

Sentences like this make me feel totally inadequate. It fits in so beautifully I wanted to convey through my Rambling. Kudos to you Viswa!

When I was living in Triplicane, I would sing like Eliza Dolittle 'All I want is a tap somewhere, with water gushing out of it'!

You are the only one in IL to have understood my bonding with lizards. May the Lizards bless you with long life and inexhaustible prosperity!
Sri

 

@joylokhi
Dear joylokhi

You can speak a truer word! In fact, I get so agitated when Internet goes off, my granddaughters rush in to divert my mind knowing that if I am left alone, I may get weird in my behavior!

Thank you. That's the kind of camaraderie I like to see among ILites always!
Sri

 

@Amulet

This reminds me of:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Never heard of this version before. It's so true. I have seen instances when lights went off for a second in a wedding dinner, until the generator could be switched on, the Diners pinching the small package of Badam Halwa from the adjoining leaf and pocketing it!

You do know the psychology of the individuals. It's very true.

 

@shyamala1234
My dear Syamala

It may have changed but people who derive great joy from small things are the ones who would never be unhappy in life. I stand fascinated when I see a group of ants trying to move a grain to their living whole. Their collective effort and their bonhomie impress me a lot.

Where is the doubt there? When I was young, there used to be a speaker in Marina to broadcast the news in the evening. We would all be sitting there listening to it. After the news, we would discuss it threadbare. Most of us never had any radio in our houses. People were much closer to each other those days and the crime rate was very low. We see murders committed in cold blood in broad daylight these days. We watch it, shrug our shoulders and move on. but those days, a single murder case would become so sensational that people would buy newspapers only to know the latest in it.
Sri

 

@shravs3
Dear Shravs
That was fantastic. The picture and wording speak a lot more than my long Rambling!
Thanks a lot
Sri

 

@Thyagarajan
dear thyagu
Thanks a lot for your interpretation and response to the various FBs. You have made my job easier!
Sri

 

@Afresh

You never fail to have a good word about whatever I write. You may not know how much it means to me.