📞 calls.....to answer or .....not?

A kin kept calling me.

I didn't have the assertive answer he was looking for. Not that I didn't want to answer his call. I didn't pick up the calls, and that was the time we were too tied to meet compliance due dates.

Yet again, the kin called.

I took the line, the kin didn't wait for me to say, hello. He started bombarding. I remained silent throughout his downpour. I believe in Eckhart's saying every swirling 🎩 Top has to lose its momentum. 

In this hand phone world, it's (mis) taken as discourtesy if the one at the other end didn't pick the call. It didn't matter in what situation the other one was.

A few days later I shared with the kin why it - not picking up the call - shouldn't be mistaken and tendered my apology.

It was psychological. He shot back a rejoinder raining advices on picking up calls and not stopping just with that, he went on further. I am used to share nice quotes if appealing to good friends and relatives. I take care while sending and choose to share with only to whom I feel they may like it. The kin too was in the list. His, - being elder is taken for granted to be a qualification to advice - advice: "Quoting may be easy. We all live in a practical world. Practising isn't that easy."

Just then a friend shared an excerpt from writer Balakumaran. I immediately forwarded the same to the kin along with a write up. Here they are.

The worst deficit

In the world is 

Not any fiscal deficit.

Insufficiency is in

Failing to respect 

The spouse.

Not just respect 

Between one spouse to the 

Other.

Helpless to see

In this patriarchy,

Patriarchy maze even

In twentieth century,

Not mere chauvinism thrives,

Worse and painsome is

 it's not all that rosy

On feminine side in

Families when it 

Comes to respecting 

Each other.

It takes a

Bhagavan Ramakrishna

To celebrate His

Better off,

Ma Sarada Devi.

Every devotee 

of Him

Is His follower

Or 

The one 

To Toe 

His line.