A state of limbo. 2 September 2008
Today, I get to understand the actual meaning of the word 'limbo'. It is Ganesh Chaturthi tomorrow and we are now going through a game of patience. To see who blinks first. Tomorrow could be placid, or it could be disastrous. It could result in a small crisis or in one of gigantic proportions. It could tide off peacefully with no puja being done at the house, or with me destroying everything around. The aspect of a non-peaceful day will be that much more curiouser. Let me see how I face it. Ostrich-like, giraffe-like, or like the proverbial bull in the china shop!
I want to see if I can hold my cool and avoid any reaction. Knowing the lunatic wife's pig-headed stubborn maniacal ego, it is going to be strange, facing up to it. It seems to be absolutely demonic, much like her mother's satanic ego, in her paranoid manner, and what can not happen?
3 September 2008
Emotions are at a low ebb. Silence reigns at noon. Slow sleepers, all and lazy. A boon today, I think. We are very silent at home today. I am thankful that I have not had the opportunity or need to be angry until now. In her own crazy and demented mind, yesterday, pre-Ganesh Chaturthi, the lunatic wife removed the photo frames of Ganesha and hanuman that Dd had given. She removed them and packed them up with the logic, perhaps, that these gods have brought us misfortune or family fights. She must have picked up on the bad logic or from advice from someone. What she forgot was that Dd had brought them to help her and had asked her to take care of them. Memory plays tricks.
Today, I get to understand the actual meaning of the word 'limbo'. It is Ganesh Chaturthi tomorrow and we are now going through a game of patience. To see who blinks first. Tomorrow could be placid, or it could be disastrous. It could result in a small crisis or in one of gigantic proportions. It could tide off peacefully with no puja being done at the house, or with me destroying everything around. The aspect of a non-peaceful day will be that much more curiouser. Let me see how I face it. Ostrich-like, giraffe-like, or like the proverbial bull in the china shop!
I want to see if I can hold my cool and avoid any reaction. Knowing the lunatic wife's pig-headed stubborn maniacal ego, it is going to be strange, facing up to it. It seems to be absolutely demonic, much like her mother's satanic ego, in her paranoid manner, and what can not happen?
3 September 2008
Emotions are at a low ebb. Silence reigns at noon. Slow sleepers, all and lazy. A boon today, I think. We are very silent at home today. I am thankful that I have not had the opportunity or need to be angry until now. In her own crazy and demented mind, yesterday, pre-Ganesh Chaturthi, the lunatic wife removed the photo frames of Ganesha and hanuman that Dd had given. She removed them and packed them up with the logic, perhaps, that these gods have brought us misfortune or family fights. She must have picked up on the bad logic or from advice from someone. What she forgot was that Dd had brought them to help her and had asked her to take care of them. Memory plays tricks.
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