'Action' and Astrology

Action (Continued) 

     So, life reminds you of a lot of things-regret is one of them. But examining the function-action, let me take you to an entirely different anecdote… 

     There is an elderly woman who corresponds with me rather frequently. She acknowledges all my messages, sends some beautiful sayings, quotations and often takes care to enquire about me. I located her once in an orphanage where she was spending the whole day caring for the inmates,  and buying daily provisions and medicines. The norm in the orphanage was that if someone had donated for the use of the institution, he or she should participate in the community lunch and dine with them. I served for  myself and sat down there, talking to the senior citizens grinning and trying to make a point with great effort. She was serving us but pretended not to recognize me. I had in fact placed her from the image she always shared with me. It was after some time that when I was labelling the old books donated for the library, seriously smelling the pages and recollecting the old days when the thirst for thoughts carved out in the form of books was intense, she appeared from behind the racks and smiled. 

‘ Whatever is natural can be soft and sweet…,’…she said, ’…what can be sweet for you inside you can be quite sour for another’s nature; an unreformed natural instinct of you can be a disaster; an individual in a relation with a mind formed out of misinformation can be death on a daily basis!’ 

Well. I remembered those words.

 ‘Hello…’, I said, ‘…interesting to see you here. More interesting is the quote of course.’ 

She sat down and sighed. She was older than what I had actually expected. 

  ‘Yes. I visit this place once every year.’ 

‘Any special reason?’ She sighed again.

 ‘Yes of course. This day is my husband’s birthday.’ 

‘I see. How old would he have been?’ 

‘What do you mean have been? He is very much available…’

 ‘I am sorry.’

‘But I do not know where he is!’ 

This was moving.

 ‘What happened?’, I asked. 

‘My fault. He left me several years ago, never to return.’ 

‘Owing to your…’ 

She raised her hand. ‘…Overreactions…you see, split second missiles and theatrics…this was what I was…a wreck and a wretched woman!’ 

She sobbed gently. I tried to comfort her.

 ‘I don’t think I would ever find him in one of these places…even if I would, he would run away given the first chance. ‘ 

‘Why did you do that with him?’ 

‘I don’t know. I could not control it through out my life. I justified it when I was young, was ignored as days passed and perhaps during middle age, he thought I was trying to over power him. That’s what my well wishers said. But it is all over’ 

                                              ~~~***~~~ 

     Does action sprout from an excited mind or a calm, mature mind? Is it true that action in the form of words does not stand the scrutiny of correctness and prudence? How are rationality and irrationality attributed to action? Is Astrology in the picture? We shall find the answers… 

(To be continued)