My finger reached for my monitor.
Click!
It then proceeded to switch on the broadband modem.
Click!
Its work ended there and the feet took charge. The big toe of the left foot switched on the CPU and the computer came back to life.
The mother saw this.
“Don’t do that again,” she was referring to the shameful deed of using my foot to touch the CPU.
“Why!?” I countered, “It’s nothing... It's a stupid machine!”
“When you marry a Hindu and get kicked out of his house, don’t complain.”
I went to the balcony making a mental note to marry a Christian.
Why do people consider feet so unholy that it cannot touch most objects? If by chance your feet happen to come in contact with another person, you have to perform some kind of ‘Oops-I’m-Sorry’ ritual by using the hand to touch your head, chest and the area just below your lips. I do this, but only to please the people around me. Whenever I do so, I mentally apologize to my feet for making them feel inferior.
People here don’t give their feet the respect and love they deserve. Maybe its because they are actually ‘lower’ than the rest of the body parts. I don’t know. But I really think we should stop this discrimination of feet and just treat them like our hands or heads or whatever.
Especially when we can go places with those wonderful feet of ours!
1 comment:
ha ha ha!!!
NOW I KNOW Y U WANT TO MARRY A CHRISTIAN!!!
well being serious, putting foot on something or touching something with your feet, is considered a sign of ill respect.
because feet are always considered to bring in all the dust and the "bad" happenings around. hence, any Hardcore brahmin or hindu house you go, u will still see people first washing their feet and then entering the house.
we still follow this during certain pooja's like, ganesh chaturthi, etc...
mihir.
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