Glimpses

I play this mental game in my head where I tell myself there are two kinds of people and then I pick the categories। Well, ususally I have the category picked out and then feeling strongly about something, or the lack of it, I begin the game. Like people who do and don't have babies and who have and not have felt their baby's cheek against their cheek.

So the latest is between people who do and do not care; people who are and are not self-absorbed. Dripped and not dripped in a self-licking-full-of-themselves-sticky syrup.

I went to a friend's house for her husband's surprise birthday. Z, the he, was at work during the weekend so I packed baby and self and drove an hour each side to get to her place. It was chaotic as hell when we arrived. The puja that she had organized was going on for hours and there was no sight of any food or drink ( I know I sound like a grumpy hog here). When I did catch sight of her and her husband after a good 30 minutes, she was too busy to even respond to my greeting. I spent the next 3 hours there with baby who was not too happy with the noise and chaos. I began talking to people and enjoying myself (If you wonder where this contradictions comes in, remember the classification into two categories happened after I got back home and had a chance to think during the hour and half long drive back home). There was tons of family all brightly bejewelled on a hot morning.