Today I met a loving grand-aunt of mine. Her name is Lata. She is 61. Like my grandmother. She was my dad’s english teacher at one time, in his high school.
It was such a pleasure to talk to her. She is a kind of person you wish you could be. A kind of person you would love to have in your family. Her perspectives, her attitude, her life, her writings, her love, her courage..in short everything is fascinatingly magnetic.
Her youth, back in the 1960s is far more lively than that of a youth of 21st century. To listen to her, talk about the life she has lived, is a almost an out-of-the-world experience every single time…
Today she said that I was about to start a new chapter of my life as I am to leave for Pune. And that my attitude would count the most at this point. That I need to be not sensational, not censory but sensitive.
The profound wisdom in these words is amazing. Like avoiding the two negative peaks and residing in the middle which is the abode of empathy. Wow..my stange explanation sounds quite over-the-head philosophical!
But it was a L-O-V-E-L-Y experience even as I gave her a ride to and fro the vegetable market in the drizzle of August. She thinks I have made good decisions with my choice of education and field trips :)
Aischa
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