“Beauty
is in the eyes of the beholder”, the famous quote from Shakespeare is obviously
very true. I got to see it recently. One of my nephews who is very fond
of me, is at an age of curiosity and he asks too many questions. When possible,
I tried to answer those in a manner which satisfied his curiosity.
Around
that time, he was seeing elders take tea or coffee and hence he was asking
about why people take tea at all! I explained to him that since he was too
young, he did not feel a need to drink it, but when we grew older, our body
felt a kind of laziness which went away when we took tea and that was the
reason only older people liked to drink tea. He was satisfied, but then he said, “I think
you won’t be needing it, because merely by looking at your face we can see that
you do not feel laziness anytime!”
Well, I like
tea too much and take at least 2 times a day. He said that because I used to play
with him and hence perhaps he saw me as a kid like himself, and could not
imagine me being lazy. But he said that about my “face” and I noticed that in
his eyes, definitely my face meant something special.
Well, I
can only feel his love when I remember this episode.
- Rahul
