Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Your Face

 

“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

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