TAGGED!!!

Well, again this game of “Tag” has come to my rescue, when I was struggling about my next blog. I was really in a fix. What to write? Lot of thanks to Kannan for tagging me. Easy now. There is no requirement to search for topic. Just Look back and introspect while keeping Kannan’s instruction in mind. It has to be all about “friend”,” family”, ‘work”,” love” and “anything you like”.

WHO IS THE BEST FRIEND?

Basically I am quite introvert and loner by nature. Close to everybody but not close enough to anybody. In my personal life I behave with utmost care to whomsoever I meet. But things are restricted to the purpose for which we have met. No evening party. No unnecessary telephone conversion. No visit to friends’ house and relatives’ house. An out and out loner. Friends are only friends for me. No better friend. No best friend. All are good friends. I do not why I am like that. But I find there is no harm in being like that. So life moves on. I move on. My friends too move on. When we meet I smile and they pay me the reciprocation smile too. Or it is vice-versa. But things are routine and simple. I am a friend to everybody. But I am not a better friend than somebody and nor am I a best friend to anybody in the regular sense. Therefore I do not have a particular blog on/for any friend as I think all my blogs are for friends both known and unknown.

From the concept of known- unknown and friendship, I remember a small story. The title of the story is “The Best Friend.” Let me narrate it in brief.

Once upon a time, in good old days, one man had many friends and he wanted to know who his best friend is. Somebody advised him to meet a God man who was living in the nearby jungle. Of course God men in those days were only staying in jungle. Unlike present day God men, they had no palace to stay, no car to move around, no film actresses to get coaching on Yoga, no politicians to ask for donations and of course no TV channels to broadcast their early morning sermons.

So the man went to the jungle to meet the God man. On meeting the God man he asked, “My Lord I want to know who my best friend is. Will you please tell me his name?” the God man did not answer that day and asked him to come next day. That day while returning the man was attacked by a tiger in the jungle. But to his good luck one jungle man came to his rescue and saved him from the attack of tiger.

Next day when he again came to the God man he heard the roar of tiger. So out of fear, he started running fast towards the hut of the God man and by the time he reached the God man, he had almost fainted. The God man took a good care of the man till he became normal. When the man became comfortable the God man asked him, “Now my son, do you know who your best friend is?” The man nodded his head in negative. Then the God man said, “My son, yesterday evening, your best friend was that Jungle man and today morning, it is me.” But the man was surprised. He asked the God man, “My Lord, both of you are not my friend.” Then the God man said, “My son, at a particular moment who-so-ever is near you, he is the best friend for you in that moment. Because of me now and that jungle man yesterday, you are alive today. Hence yesterday evening that unknown man was your best friend and today morning it is me.”

Yes, my friends in the walk of life and in every moment of life the person near us is our best friend, he/she may be known and unknown. Let us be the best friend to each other in that sense.

HERE IS A BLOG FOR YOU

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FRIENDSHIP:- PARIJAT-15.

FAMILY.

What is family? Who are the members of that family? My father. My mother. My wife/husband. My son. My daughter. My brother. My sister. The list goes on. Yes, they are part of our family. But how much time we spend with that family? Yes, my friends, your family is there wherever you are. If you are at your work place, your colleagues make your family.

Here is one of my old blog for you written on that concept of family.

PARIJAT-11.

WORK.

You must be knowing that I am a brick and sand Engineer. Yes, Civil Engineer. That is my profession. That is my work. Writing much on this will amount to blowing my own trumpet.

Here is a blog for you relating to Civil Engineering.

HEALTH CHECK UP OF BUILDINGS.

LOVE.

Well, this is a very difficult subject. Without much ado, I will guide you to one of my old blog.

Here goes the blog on love.

PARIJAT-18.

ANYTHING YOU LIKE.

It does not require much thinking to write about what I like. Undoubtedly, it is music. I listen to anything and everything irrespective of language. Though I have written couples of blogs on music, I would talk about a blog which for some unknown reasons remains relatively unnoticed.

Here goes that blog on music.

THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC.

TASK FOR FRIENDS.

Well, my friend, when I have talked about music, let me give a musical treatment all of you. Here is a beautiful song for all of you along with its videos. The second video is by an unknown singer. But her voice is as good as original singer, Chithra. The language of the song is TAMIL, one of the Indian languages.

Here is a task for one of the respected blogger of my friends’ list. Yes, he is ShankarG♥2♥. The task for him is that he has to write lyrics of the song in English and its translation in English in the comment section of the blog.

Here is another beautiful song. This time the language is Bengali, another Indian language. Now it is turn of my Bengali friend, Mili to write about its lyrics and translation in English in the comment section.

WHO WILL BE TAGGED?

Here goes the list.

Los.

AJ.

Mrudula.

MOONRISE.

Retta D'Costa.

Gulshan.

P.K

Happy tagging, my friends.