Ugadi

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"No, it doesn't.  This year too will be a mixed moments of joys and achievments like jaggery, few failures, disappointments, few setbacks and little pain like the bitterness of neam with a splash of sour tamarind i.e., few exciting moments with a dose of mangoes which is rare, seasonal and looked forward  to by all.  Ugadi pachchadi ( a speciality prepared only on the day of Ugadi) represents just this!  This is a remainder that life wouldn't be boring or monotonous with one flavour - it's going to be full of all flavours of life this year too!"

I frowned a bit and said in a low voice "If everything is going to be same, then what's the purpose of starting or making a new beginning?"

"The food we eat today goes out as feces next day.  We all know this.  Yet, don't we make elaborate menus and look forward to eating everyday.

The ingredients remain the same. Have the number of vegetable increased over the years.  It's the same fruit, same vegetables. Don't we still relish them every time.  Why?  Because, every time we treat them as our first time....and that is possible because we are able to make way in our stomach by pushing all that we have eaten and digested - out!".

The newness doesn't come by a new ingredient, new locations, new entry of person or profession.  It comes in the way - we meet it. That is - with a new vigour and new expectation.  The biryani that we love, do we say, "I've eaten it ten times in my life - so what's new this time."  No, never.  It's the same biryani - yet it is not the same for us.  It's new!  Does that sound paradoxical!  Just observe yourself with your favourite ice-cream, chocolate, dress etc. on two different days.  Then, you would understand what I am saying.  But, we restrict it to physical things and that too to our favourites.  Apply this approach with every person you meet (especially those whom you meet on daily basis and see the flavours of relationships come out off life" she paused with a question on her face as "did you get it now?"

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