If I remember right Lord Saturn began his seven and a half year period of traverse with me when I was in my 12th standard. Popularly called the "Shani Dasha" this is supposedly a phase where one should take care, be precautious and remain humble in order to lead a problem free life. It is also supposed to be immensely rewarding if you remain a believer and follow the path of "karma". Minor slips and hiccups here and there are bound to happen but you are to be grateful that a bigger accident was avoided. And leg injuries are said to be very very common...
After adamant persuasion, I got my first motor vehicle in my final year of school. It was a TVS Champ (known for its "safe big wheels" to quote daddy) and I was immensely proud of it. But big wheels aren't supposed to skid are they? The day of my counselling for admission into Engineering, I was tracking behind this giant Tata Sumo on a narrow road. The Sumo I guess doesn't really need to care about those stupid speed breakers...they are just too small to bother the behemothal automobile...but poor me n my Champ, our breaks weren't strong enough to make that sudden decision to stop n we just screeched flat on the road...the whole of my left leg was badly bruised...but ok guess I was lucky my head was intact...
(Moral of the story : Leaders and masters aren't to be blindly followed...use your brains...)
My Champ had a long steel exhaust on the left side...it was like this place where my Champ would vent out all his irritations n frustrations on his rider n her irritating friends pillioning behind...now obviously that would be hot...n I always knew it...still I have managed to burn my leg there atleast a dozen times, a couple of times the burn causing dark scars that were to stay with me for the next 3 years, a time longer than my Champ himself remained with me...
(Hmmm...don't we always keep making the same mistakes? N the more times we commit the same mistakes, the deeper we suffer due to them...)
A group of us had gone to one of our favourite hangouts during MBA to have some chaat...as always Meha n I stuck to Pav Bhaaji n I think we were a wee bit hungry...I grab the plate of hot Pav Bhaaji from the waitress n do somthing funny with it...the entire plate spills and all the Bhaaji falls over my right leg...the whole leg is burning...I immediately wash my pyjama hoping thats the end of it but discover back in the hostel that I sustain burns once again...
(Sometimes things aren't what they seem to be, you need to look in deeper to actually find out, n what you find out might not be what you were hoping to see)
Then there was the time when I drop a heavy rice cooker full of boiling water on my feet and sustain swelling and reddening for the next few days...
(Oh please don't do things which you just think you can do, or atleast take necessary precautions to ensure you do it right)...
Not to mention the 100s of shoe bites I have had or the mini accident I faced a couple of days ago where a bike almost ran over my toes...
To put a long story short, all of life is about making mistakes n learning from them, the more we look into how we burnt our hands (or in my case legs!) n the more retrospection n reflection we do, the more we learn...(aaaaaaargh...tooo much ain't I??;))
Btw, I still don't believe Saturn caused those leg burns...but am sure he likes the fact that I am learning from them...:)...here we go with a dramatic finish...
Nilajana Samapasham Raviputram Yamakrajam
Chaya Marthanda Sampootam Tham Namami Shanaishwaram
9 comments:
look like u have hard some lessons wich definitely left a mark on u :) but then having ur feet burnt near the exhaust pipe is something which everyone who drives a bike goes through..i for one who occasionally drive a bike (if u can call that :)) have also gone through it...as for the other incidents .. welll if some ppl have two left feet i guess they just have to resign to the fact.. and well go through the occasional burns.. :)
btw shoe bites is a universal phenomenon which everyone goes through anyway...
Btw forgot to ask what was all that gibberish in sanskrit all abt..although i did take sanskrit in school for two years..my knowledge is next to zilch....
am still wondering what prompted that article... and WTF was that in sanscrit....and ya getting your leg burnt on that exhaust pipe is so common....and last but not the least...since i started my second stint in the corporate world, have been hearing things like is "being born less than 10 months0" a criteria for BIM...i used to wonder too...now am sure it is....;)
Here is an alternate explanation:
The whole TVS champ thing - We how good drivers women are.I guess Kavi is no exception (Im not being chauvinistic here!)
What about the cooker and Pav Bhaji - Kavi and Cooking definitely dont go hand in hand (or should I say leg in leg!)
Kavi your biggest learning - Stay away from driving and the Kitchen!
another explantion..may be you were too cool that you could consciously sense a burning encounter now and then.
another explantion..may be you were too cool that you could consciously sense a burning encounter now and then.
Well, the TVS champ thing has happened to everyone who's ever owned a similar vehicle. However the other things that happened are strictly Kavi-special. U better watch out for those pretty feet, Kavi darling. :)
more than agree with santa . i remember u telling them tht kavi and cookin r impossible. so are u done with the dasai or is it the final leg which is y ur gettin trained badly pun intended:-)
hey guys thanks for all the comments...
yep sid n dj, shoe bites are sure common, probably have jus had a li'l more than what ought to be my share of them ;)...they've definitely left a mark or 2!!!...
the "gibberish" in sanskrit is actually a couplet in praise of Saturn and its got a couple of mythological anecdotes associated with it...wuld be too long to write them in here, but culd tell ya...
n shakky n suraj, need u tell me, I am very much stayin away from the kitchen!!!
interesting explanations sara...
jaya, pretty feet hmmm, nazar lag gaya ;)
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