ethanayo magangal

IS IT PECULIAR OR UNIQUE?

                                               

Every individual has his own thoughts, ideas, and methods of doing things, style of functioning and style of writing and speaking! At times it may look peculiar or unique, idiotic or intelligent, foolish or wise, quixotic or otherwise! But then, one goes on and on.

I shall give a brief account of the actions of a seventy –three year old person enjoying fairly reasonable health, peaceful retired life and financial support. He has developed certain habits which he tries to meticulously follow right from his boyish days.

While he was in service, he used to shave his face on the alternative days, but of late he has changed it to once in three days and the days will be the multiple of three every month-duly adjusted for the months with thirty one days- other than the days on which falls new moon or such other auspicious days when an act like shaving is barred in our tradition!

Going to hair-cut in these days is done only on the third Sundays of all the odd months of the year! 

It is his habit to take his morning walk between 4.00am and 5.00 am. Fortunately in his colony, there is a walking track measuring 271meters and laid with 6 tiles. He used to take 12 rounds and he walks each round in one tile and naturally he will be walking two rounds everyday on each tile in seriatim! He strongly believes in multiple operations – simultaneous operations- a nice strategy in time management-.   He will be chanting prayers- 8 manthras- in these twelve rounds- 4 of them in two rounds and the other four each round! He will also have arm exercises while walking – starting with 12 times in the first round and ending with once in the twelfth round!!!

To be of help to his better half, he also engages himself for the past couple of years in odd domestic chores like cutting the vegetables, drying the wet clothes, keeping in order the vessels cleaned by the servant maid etc.

Cutting the vegetables may demand about an hour and a half and he will choose the time in such a way that during this time he will see three of the serials in the TV! Nursing his none- too- healthy wife running 66 for an hour with water therapy and oil therapy between 8.00 pm and 9.00pm, he will have two more serials in the TV!  Then the day comes to an end for him!

While putting the wet clothes for drying in the three rows of rod outside the balcony, depending on the need for sun rays, thickness of the cloth etc, he has allotted the space for each of the approximate 20 pieces and on no account the space will be changed!

Similarly while arranging the kitchenware, he has allotted specific places for spoons, plates etc and on no account there will be any change in the arrangement! 

He is a small time bilingual poet/writer and he has to his credit 22 books out of which 18 have been published and his articles and poems are regularly  published in some part of the world or the other in an obscure manner and that gives him a very high satisfaction!

What do you call this person?

                        Peculiar or unique

                        Idiotic or intelligent

                        Quixotic or otherwise

                        Foolish or wise?

Don’t change your opinion on learning who he is- he is none but the author of this write-up!

God bless the readers and the author!