The Omniscient Gentleman!

But but sir, give yourself some credit too! You also did not know as you put it, that such a well informed gentelman lived in your neighborhood too and sir to give you more credit, all your sense of excitement and the capacity to flash the flashiest of smiles in making friends is what makes you feel glad that your esteemed neighbor didnot think Bush was somethingthat grows in forests! What a sense of humor there sir! I laughed to my heart's content. I have a neighbor who knows who is who of Hollywood and I am left gaping when she spins out names nad places she goes in search of them. When I look around my world here I am often amused when I realize that I will not be able to identify if a celebrity lived next door, utmost I might feel that the said person looks familiar but cannot for the life of me place them! And sir the joy in meeting someone who comes from where we come from is totally something many of us understand thankfully. It comes from happy memories of the said place

 

You do make me feel like I am doing something sir! You do. So you can only imagine how crabby and cranky I can get if I am bored and thanks to your ramblings, kids were spared from my mood yesterday I need to stop at that library an dpick up my reserved books ASAP. Today looks bright already and the sun is shining and so that grass is calling me to take care of it! As for that donke and the important document you speak of, it did go right over my head but since you assure me it is only a ramble, I will take your word for it.

 

Dear Cheeniya Sir,
I just chanced to go through the response and traced the thread back to 2007. Very interesting, There are as many azhumoonjis as are chat lovers.
During the first Deepavali in our newly built home in 1970, my husband went to our neighbour's house with a packet of home made sweets and savouries to my neighbour's house, who had also bulit the house at the same time.( as was the custom in our village)The neighbour , half asleep at 8 A. M. on Deepavali day,also from the same community said, "we neither like to give nor receive sweets' and shut the door on his face.
Then I realised that they do not consider working women as responsible housewives.
There are many people who do not have any ill feeling, but just don't like to have any relationship of any sort. They have got a strict policy of " keeping arm's length ' to everybody in the world including spouse and children.
Many don't interfere for fear of getting involved into gossips/ rumours.
In the present day world, when children stay far away,it becomes absolutely necessary to enjoy loneliness.
We have a mama in the neighbouring street, who loves to talk and talk. He won't realise the urgency of others and talk for hrs. The entire street addresses him as 'Bore mama' and try to avoid him.
In this world of communication and internet,one can live without talking for months.Cheeniya's ramblings themselves followed by responses would keep us busy for a month.
My mother who lived in a joint family of 25 to people from birth to death , was totally disgusted with struggles and gossips and started longing for a private hall, where she can live for herself, do something for herself uninterfered by anyone.That dream of hers was never realised.
She was very much fond of solving maths puzzles . As we had a common hall and no rooms, she used to spend after noon hours in Cow shed and do maths problems with a chalk .
Loko Bhinna ruchi:

jayasala 42

 

Cheeniya sir, it might interest you to know that you have voiced the same sentiments about getting to know neighbours as another great person - Mark Twain (if I have not goofed up the author) - had voiced in an essay about travel. He had mentioned how if you met your neighbour in say a small town in Italy, both would get very excited, wave at each other and chat with each other as if their lives depended on it. But meet the same person in your own street at home, there would be no sign of the least recognition.

LOL, you made me guffaw loudly in the middle of the night, or is it early morning scaring the birds into waking up. I was wondering why on earth they want to get up so early and was thinking I had never heard the birds up so early when they probably heard my thoughts, shut up and went back to sleep!

 

Sir, the Omniscient man did not know you. You, the non - omniscient, did not know him. He had too many lofty things on mind to make room for you. You had too many mundane things on mind to find place for him.
In my view, knowing or not knowing about matters big and small has nothing to do with good neighbourliness. It is just a simple fact that it doesnt occur to people to care . I dont know who lives in the flat two floors above mine. I never cared to know. Even after enjoying this most amusingly written article, and mulling over the comedy and the tragedy of it , I have to admit I still dont care . I am trying to lead an uncluttered life , without burdening my brain with data about Kofi Annan's successor or about my upstairs neighbour (who might even be you).

 

2015! This has only worsened, I think! I live in apt 308, I donot know who lives next door, opposite or even in the whole floor! Neither do they know who is living in 308! Such is life these days!

One time, there was a fire alarm in my apartment. I rushed out to the corrider, the same time my next door guy was coming out of his house too. I asked him if there was indeed fire or if its just another false alarm... He gave me a very weird look & hurried to the stairs instead... How impolite of him?! I dint want to face him again so I took the staircase in the other end of the hall, all the while wondering y would he give me such a weird look... That he did not understand English, being arabic? That he din't think a women should talk to him, something like his religion / culture thing? Am clueless till this day! This happened in 2013, I don't know if he is still my neighbour or not... Or if he even lived next door in the first place!