The FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATED ganji



It was one of those late nights of Ramadan (1). I was having Suhoor (2) with my dad. While I was having Ganji (3), my dad was waiting for mom to prepare Patthir (Rice roti). 

Mom had cooked Ganji from cooker that night, (as it takes less time) and dad didn't like cooker made Ganji. I asked my dad : "Why is it that you don't eat cooker made Ganji?" Dad replied: "Because a cooker made ganji made in haste is less tastier than a ganji made in a normal vessel which takes its time to cook" 

Hearing these words, made me have an epiphany. I rhetorically remarked: "So are human beings!" He replied: "Yes! So are human beings. A person who thrived with patience is qualitatively better than a person who flourished in no time"

A person who took shortcuts might enjoy certain short-term benifits, but in the long run, the one who struggled his way up with patience and perseverance - it is he who has tasted his success. As a matter of fact, we human beings have a tendency to value only those things which we have earned from our sweat & we tend to floccinaucinihilipilificate what we get easily. 


So the bottom line of this philosophical Ganji is - 'Success and Ganji taste good when cooked with patience and not with haste.'

Meanings:
(1) islamic month of fasting
(2) Pre dawn meal before beginning the fast
(3) Gruel/ congee








































Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

An year in Psychiatry

Image
With an inquisitive mind to unravel the un-unravelable mysteries of human mind and to satisfy the novelty seeking thirst of my soul, which was bored by the mundane medical stuff - did I enter Psychiatry. Of course I couldn't completetely get rid of mundane medical stuff. Because apparently the "other world famous Psychiatry hospital" refers Psychiatry patients with mundane medical stuff, such as those with hypertension whose BP doesn't come under control on Amlong 5mg to St Johns for "multidisciplinary management". But thanks to them in a way, we get to see a variety of patients. Nonetheless the 1 year journey in Psychiatry has been amazing with its cyclothymic ups and downs. From blankly staring at slides during academics to trying to make sense of things ; From being tremulous while giving ECTs (1)to patients, to appreciating it's miracles (and wishing someone could give it to me, to improve my mood); From getting annoyed by the only TELUGU...
Read more

Even we can save 2 LIVES

Image
While having small talk at dinner in a messy mess with one of my male colleagues during my Post MBBS Government service, I asked him as to which subject he's interested in doing his PG [1] in? He said "OBG"! [2] And I was like, "Why?" with an expression on my face saying 'what's wrong with you?' Because all that I have,  is PTSD [3] from OBG. It's not the subject itself, as I liked to read it.(Thanks to a very good teacher we had in our UG college & Marrow's Dr. Sakshi Arora [4] ). Nor was it the hectic duties during internship (as we had some good PGs who were good to work with). But it was the labor ward which was in and of itself a war zone!!!  Lots of women shouting for lots of things!!! Pregnant ladies shouting out of pain, nursing staff shouting at the pregnant ladies and the consultants and PGs shouting at nursing staff and at each other!!  Kind of like a food chain or rather a 'Shout chain'! Everyone's bu...
Read more

BE THAT BOOT LICKER

It was during my internship time in 2020.  There was some friction between a particular teacher and our batch. The context of conflict being, a redundant punishment some of my batchmates got for a minor mistake that they did. It was like what you say -  killing a fly with a canon.I wouldn't go into the details of this.  Anyways, the batch decided to take this matter seriously. The way our batchmates were treated was completely unfair. I don't intend to demonise that teacher by writing this blog. But there's a lesson I learnt from the sequence of events that unfolded after this issue, which I am trying to share. I highly respect this particular teacher, but none of us are saints! So we planned to approach the Director of the institute who was indubitably 'Student friendly'. And somehow we managed to take advantage of it as well, I would say. Anyways we approached him and I happen to handle a letter (which was authored by me) over to him with my batchmates signatures ...
Read more