idea(tic) indigestion...

Dindu isn’t very happy with his legendary name – Dindigul Krishnamachary Senthil Santhosh Srinivasan. Somebody told him his name sounds more like IUPAC name of an organic compound, something like 1-iso-2-cyno-tetra-butanoic acid. I told him - ‘what’s in a name machi, dindu who lives in chennai will remain dindu by any other name’. It gave him some confidence and last time when he left the conversation he was headed towards the beach near his house, for solitude or for sinking his ass in Bay of Bengal - no idea, until...

After a few days, Dindu pings me long distance and says:

Dindu: Macha! I have found out a great secret of life.

Me: Hey!!! Good man! What is it? Some fountain of youth or something, or some money tree, or a power to read other people’s minds, or the answer to 'why-the-hell-am-I-doing-my-job'?

Dindu: Tch, no da! It’s the omnipresent law, the simple fact, which is so common that common man fails to see it.

Me: Duh! What’s that?

Dindu: A common man sees other people the same way s/he sees a tree.

Me: Ohhhkk!!! Silence for a couple of seconds… more silence…

Me: So??? What does that mean?

Dindu: What I mean is, when an average person comes in contact with some other person or thing, s/he judges the person or the thing with the immediate knowledge about the person or the thing and the way that information is correlated to the person who is making the judgment.

Me: Ok! I don’t understand a thing.

Dindu: Figuratively, a person looks at the branches of the tree and says tree is like this or like that. Very few care about the roots of the tree. Also, the judgment might differ depending on the current state of interest of the person.

Me: How?

Dindu: Assume there is a huge tree with lot of branches and leaves. Now, if a person wants to take shelter from the sun or the rain and comes across this tree, this is in interest of the person – the tree is a haven. If a person wants to build a house on the same spot as the tree or a person’s kite is stuck in the tree, then the tree becomes trouble. You see?

Me: So? How does this relate to person to person relations?

Dindu: Similarly, when a person comes in contact with other person, the quality and strength of this contact link depends on their immediate state of interest and their immediate knowledge about each other.

Me: But who has the time to dig the earth and look at the roots?

Dindu: That’s the reason of failure of so many relationships. It’s like two beggars begging each other assuming that the other is an emperor. Eventually they come to realize that both of them are beggars and then they fall apart (source). Moreover, if you are looking for diamonds you’ve got to dig, if you want dust it’s everywhere!

Me: Whoa, that's heavy! I will get indigestion man. Phew! What the heck are you eating these days?

Dindu: Dae! Nothing da... I am just spending more time in the beach…

Me: Tch! Ok da, after this over dose of your brain, I need to go pinch a loaf…

Dindu: Dae fu****r!

Me: Can’t stop man!!! Meanwhile check this. Bye bye…

Dindu: Puranboka. Wait!!!!