I AND MY LAZINESS

Three days back I was having a voice chat with my sister , based in Saudi Arabia, discussing everything under the sun when I, suddenly, informed her about the death of one of our close relatives. My astonished sister told me that she had died six months back so how could she die again. For few seconds I remained quiet then I remembered my mom making a call to her daughter to express her condolence over her mother’s death, nearly 6 months back. OK I said if it were not her then it must be her younger ailing sister who had died. By then my sister was exasperated, she chided me for making wild guesses and asked me from where I had got the information. I began by telling her about the visit of a maid servant , employed at the maternal house of the relative whose death I was so sure of, to my uncle’s house and telling my aunt that achchi dadi had died. Now her relatives called her by that name,that’s why ,I told my sister I was sure it was she who had died. In case you guys are wondering as to how I got to know about the maid servant’s visit to my uncle’s place, well it’s situated next to mine, and I had heard the entire conversation between the 2.Not convinced by my explanations my sister instructed me to make further enquiries. So instead of going to my uncle’s place and confirming the news, which was the most sensible thing to do but I was feeling very lazy,I picked up my mobile phone,mobiles are great they save so much of your time and energy well I will talk about them in another blog, and dialed the number of another relative and asked her whether she had heard about achchi dadi’s death, she said no and promised to get back to me after talking to achchi dadi’s niece who happened to be her friend. In the meantime my sister having a text chat with her brother who lives in another city told him about this news but also that it was not confirmed. I waited for my relative’s phone for some time and then I called her again .She said she had a talk with her friend and casually asked her if everything was fine and the answer was in affirmative. It means she reasoned that the lady was alive. By that time my family members were calling me up wanting to know what had happened .Finally I did what I should have done earlier ;I went to my uncle’s house and asked as directly as I could as to who had died .There had been a death alright but 0f a servant and the girl who came was not the one I thought she was and clearly i had mis..heard and achchi dadi ,even though ill, was very much alive. If only I had not been that lazy but kya karooon......