On social etiquettes

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“Can you think of such irrelevant and baseless questions?” Sethu asked.

“Oh! They are in scores.

A  Seeing a person at hotel/cinema hall/park and asking “What are you doing here?” I always feel like saying something like “Came to purchase grocery/vegetables or came to bury my dead uncle”. Isn’t the answer obvious? Then why do they ask?

B.      ‘So sad! So you both are staying alone now?’, ‘how come two people can be staying alone?’ such stupid statement or question.

C.      Calling someone in the mid-afternoon or late in night and asking ‘are you asleep?’, then why did you call?

 All started laughing out loud. Infact our stomach started to ache. 

Yes, it sounded funny now that we listened to these questions clearly! Oh God! How many times we could have parroted these ‘stupid questions?’ We asked him to stop. We got the picture. With tears rolling down our cheeks, we decided to listen to our own questions and stop ourselves from asking these questions. We wanted to take that initiative to stop asking such stupid and irrelevant questions.

“Then we would automatically talk so little” laughed Sethu. “Yes. True! And when you talk it would be on a sensible topic or subject. Something would come out of such topics then” replied Ramana.

‘Not only would your external chatter reduce but it would automatically reduce the chatter in your brain. That would in return help you to be more peaceful. This would lead you to more energetic life” added Prakash.

“Now don’t you exaggerate. What has less talk got to do with our energy levels?” I asked.

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