PLAYING TRUANT- 2

 PLAYING   TRUANT- 2

What else but the day’s fate? 

You are awaiting an important postal article and have made arrangements to receive it.                                                                                        As your luck would have it, the postman of the area is on leave which is a rare occurrence. The new man is unable to locate the address. The usual person has chosen to go on leave now.  The next day you call on the post office for collecting this.  Another common sight:   A one-day Cricket contest falls on a holiday at an ideal time slot. You are fully organized to see the telecast. Only then the power goes off. When the supply is restored your favourite team is in doldrums. Your friends unfailingly narrate the next day, how in the early part of the game, your favorites were performing well. What we cannot see is always good.  See this: Your smart child refuses to recite rhymes when the visitors have been briefed of the child’s proficiency. [Even if due, you cannot be proud]. Soon after the guests leave, your kid is back on a full scale. You like a particular candy and ask the shopkeeper for two. He faithfully tells you that he has only one and advices you to come the next day. What we don’t prefer is in plenty. Does candy deserve destiny’s favour? You may differ. But, it is so. Our TV sets develop disorders exactly a day or two after the lapse of warranty time, making us pay for what would have been a free item some 48 hours ago. No one knows the calendar better than the TV. They are always loyal to the manufacturer displaying affection to the parent. In a product, a specific model of a brand, popular for certain features fails to live up to them, when we acquire that.  It is not my desire to portray everything in a dismal form. Is it not true that most of what I have narrated happens to us in our daily life?  I am very clear that it is not for only a few. Most people go through these experiences, only varying in frequency.  No event in life appears to be free from such hindrance. But, we are not tired of our attempts; not an item has been postponed or given up without at least a couple of trials.          K. Raman