On social etiquettes...

Good Morning!

Me, My Guru

 It was 5.30am as I walked into my neighbourhood park as usual. I found my friends had already come there. I just waved my hand right at the gate and greeted them with ‘good morning’. Prakash was one friend who never wished nor wished back anyone or that matter.  This had been since long bothering me. Today I just found the feel to ask and I blurted out “why don’t you wish anyone good morning and neither do you wish them back if someone does?”

“It’s a phony formality that doesn’t mean anything to anyone. Everyone just say it robotically. There is no feel, intention or desire attached to it. I don’t want to contribute to that “so saying he left to pay badminton. Yes, we played for 1/2an hour atleast daily. I had just come and I sat down for some time before going to play. I used that time to think on what Prakash said just now.

Was it just a phony habit? Didn’t any of us mean anything? If we didn’t mean anything, then why in the hell did we say it so religiously? I contemplated on such questions.

Sometime later my name was called and I ended up playing and didn’t have time to think. Later we went for walk. It was only after that when we sat that I got to speak to Prakash “Why do you think it’s phony?” I asked Prakash.

“What do I think as phony?” asked Prakash surprised. Then I realized that he had moved on and I was still stuck at that sentence. That sounded funny. Don’t we all do that often? Someone says something and moves on but we get held up at that phrase or sentence! That’s odd I thought! Wonder when and why it happens? But these questions had to be addressed at some other time, now I had to talk to Prakash.

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