A Stroke Of Luck!

Dear Cheeniya Sir,
It is really good to read your posts again. They have always inspired me. I used to keep wondering why you had not posted anything for quite some time. Our good wishes are always with you and your family.
Regards, Lakshmi Bhat

 

My dear Anna Glad to know u too missed me. I enquired Satch about u Sorry to know about the stroke and you had to suffer so Much. Glad you r better now But Right eye. Has affected. Finest forum was also empty without you. Viswa felt your absence along with us and nominations were less. I myself cant believe that I was also not active and now A days busy. With jewellery making You are always in my prayers. May God bless you .and bring you to normal soon

 

I usually avoid posts on health, mortality and melancholy, and other sensitive bearings of life because I had realised long ago that I'm inept at grasping frail and delicate aspects of human existence which rightfully deserve a solemn contemplation. As a teenager, I once blurted out, as you arguably put it, good points on appendicitis to which an aggrieved mother of my hospitalised friend duly sent me out of the ward citing lack of sobriety, seriousness or other s-words in my unruly personality. So, I am very wary not to upset anyone on "fragile" matters of life. However, your humour and upbeat nature has lured me to reply to this one as well which if rendered in a pensive and staid tone I would have avoided.

There are very few people who battled out such trauma and cheerfully returned to put a smile on everyone with the musings and moniker of a brand-Stroke patient. I don't know if it's the earnest prayer or the timely intervention or the medical advancement or stroke of luck but I'd like to believe it is your wit and zeal for life that had won over the insurmountable adversities of life. Good to see you tapping away with a single finger with the might of an aye-aye's middle finger. I usually skip clichéd get-well cards, nonetheless, no one is more eager than I am for you to recover the vision of a legendary eagle that aims at a target from a 1000 ft. What say?

 

Cheeniya,

TD; LR: My longer posts are not indicative of my indulgence nor are the shorter posts my indifference.

I prefer to err on the side of caution so that I don't upset anyone on humane matters. For a long time I suspected that my one side of the brain is de-sensitised and misbehaves unapologetically to the “serious” shifts in life. As my mom puts it, when will you start to get “all serious” about life, to which I resolutely answer back, “what do you mean by getting serious”. I know for sure you understand what I am saying.

I believe that soft laugh on the blotches of life keeps the blues away.

One of the science writers I enjoy reading is Peter Medawar. How can one not enjoy the writings of this man whose autobiography is called "Memoir of a Thinking Raddish".

Your spin on your health reminded me of him. When I read your post, I was “Zut! Cheeniya, you not only have the last laugh but you are the laughter all the way in your reflections on life which leaves no scope for dour interference.”