Application of Il Dolce Far Niente!

Me, My Guru

Application of Il Dolce Far Niente!

It seemed long back when our Guru talked about IDFN and we had come often times to share our inputs and experiences regarding this but some or the other incident or person took the centre-stage always. At last, we had given up hope of ever discussing it. But today it happened just like that. Yes, it was so impromptu! We had actually come to attend a ‘class’ or ‘session’ as we prefer to call it. But our Guruji said it stands cancelled because of sudden heavy downpour. This was a bit perplexing to most of us. So many of our ‘sessions’ were conducted during rainy season, then why it was quoted as a reason to cancel our session, we didn’t know. We didn’t dare ask her. I just put this as one of ‘her weird behavior patterns’ folder and shelved it in the

bank of my memory bank. Her talks and behavior had been so many times self-contradictory that we had come to accept it with just a nod. Initially, I would go ‘bonkers’ over her ‘such talk or behaviour’ for days on end. But not any more! Ofcourse Rahul, Aziz and their gang members were never troubled by such incidents. Their trust far beyond their experience was so profound and unshakable that it sometimes though seemed wonderful, many times it only irked me more!

But now, I have made peace with her ‘such behaviours’ I had had my share of experience to tell me that there was always a solid reason for such of her behaviour. Now I know that her talk and actions was not based on likes and dislikes like us ‘normal people’. No Never!

She talked what she ought to, not what she wanted to. So unlike us! So, this belief gave me peace that was explainable and at the same time this belief was not ‘blind belief’. Well, no point discussing something that can’t be expressed. Right?

So, having nothing much to do Deepa just suggested we share our IDFN experiences. Just like that! And here we were doing it when we least expected to. 

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