learning and growing

 Day before yesterday, while praying to God, I told God, I would like to meet him and then laughed at the mere possibility of it. Yesterday morning, a man knocked on our door. This man was sent to us by our neighbor who call him ' Halim chachha' . So he came to take away a worn out induction heater,some other worn out gadgets and broken umbrellas. The moment he entered our house, he smelled so bad( a truth is a truth). As my mother was helping him with all the things, he just said that he does this work not out of need but just to keep his mind sane because both his sons work abroad and he can spend a lovely after 60 life, if he wants to. I was listening to him and I caught his reflection on one of the framed portraits that we have of God near the stairs. He was adjacent to the portrait and it reflected his image somehow. So that was definitely God telling me " Hey,there. " ( I would like to believe that).  The story does not end there. So after this was over, I got b...

There is something that I had missed out on, in my previous blog. I will dedicate this blog to that something. So, a month back, my youngest student came to me with an old pen case. By a pen case I mean the plastic pouch/box inside which pens are kept in a shop. I hope I have been able to convey the idea properly. So these plastic pouches also have a transparent plastic sheet right on the top that gives the customer a glimpse of the pen that's inside. Why am I telling you all this? Here's the fun part. So this student told me that she had kept her pet inside it. And I was very keen to find out what pet it was? So, she showed me a black carpenter ant that she had kept inside the pen pouch. It doesn't end there. She also told me that she would love to have another black ant to make sure that it can give company to the other ant that was inside. She showed me the little hole that she had made for the ant. The hole was more like a ventilator for the ant according to my student....