"Makoda'

Friends

I am blogging after more than a month. In last one month we celebrated Diwali and had  long vacation. Gujarat celebrates almost a week's holiday during Diwali.

During Diwali we exchange gifts and sweets to retain the relationship and further expand and strengthen the relations. This is integral part of social and professional set up and needs continuous updating. Such festivals give great opportunities to sync with society.

While analysing various professional and social  relations, we come across many persons growing beyond our imagination and expectation. They give good surprise when we come to know about them suddenly. We try to reconnect with them in anticipation of getting some favour from them. In most of the cases the experience is not very good and we end up with embarrassment or heart burning. 

Here I would like to remind about on movie "Billu" casting Shah Rukh Khan and irrfan. Do you remember, in this movie character of SRK (Shahid Khan) becomes a very big star where as his patron character of Irrfan (Billu) remains a small time barber. When SRK comes to his village every one pushes him to meet him more particularly his wife Lara. At that time in the story, Irrfan says that if I would go to him now Shahid would think that see 'Makoda' has come. Makoda is an insect who moves towards some sweet product and plunges into that till that Makoda pushes head inside and most of the time die there it self. So in the movie, Billu avoids going to Shahid fearing embarrassment and insult despite lot of pressure from every corner. He does not want to become Makoda. Similar story was with Lord Krishna and Sudama. But in this case as per the story Sudamaji reached to Lord Krishna. 

In our daily life we come across with many people  becoming senior officer, politician, businessman or celebrity  and we try to reach to them . We feel that he would give us same response of earlier times and revert with love. Practically it rarely happens. Most of the cases he would rather show you his success more loudly and may even hurt you emotionally.  Anyways, we should always avoid to become "Makoda" unless it is the question of life and death. I experienced that those who become highly successful would never care for old friends and they may be right too. It is better to save your self from becoming "Makoda". Whenever any old friend becomes big celebrity or officer or politician we boast of knowing him and try to reach him. Our purpose may be selfish. Also that guy would never like to be associated with such friends who are at lower scale in his eyes. He may also not like the world to know his roots. Whatever be the reason, we should avoid being Makoda. It may not benefit in short term but later on it would help a lot. Better we remain Billu at least self respect will be retained.

CP