Beautiful conversations&Sunflower - Remembering Meera Mam

" I got a call from old age home around 2006 ,they askd if I could wish a person named Meera Nayak-never met before on her birthday [Its always warm when somebody  suddenly pops up and wishes you] . I knew she was elderly ,possibly feeling lonely . I didnt have too much of money to buy something big for her ..I wanted something invaluable and something she will remember me for ... So i decided to buy her a sunflower plant! .. it would be wonderful...early morning the flower would smile at her..and she can take care of the flower as well..

I reached her place on oct 11 .Door opened saw a woman of 80 + ..her voice is still ringing in my hears..initial questions..then once i wished and gave plant..she was excited ! ..jumping with happiness.all excited tone..all smiles :)..it was wonderful feeling to give ..there started the conversation which lasted for 3 hours..
 
 I came to know what a great person she was .. something popped in physics i was talking..then to my shock she told me Dr.CV raman -Nobel prize winner was her close friend ! .. we spent lot of time talking on music..then came another shocker .. her conversation with Menuhin sir,the greatest violin player ever lived.... my god..and she was president of Red cross ,india...list goes on..yet so simple and humble..so level headed..

Another thing she carried her youth with her ! at her age..you must see her excitement and curiosity to know something.. bubbly ..we both laughed when she confessed she always had a crush for amitabh bachan though 20 years younger than her..:)..

I had visited her the second time..we played mouth organ together..she was pro !..introduced me to strummin ..i had told her that i will take her to my home and play violin..she always wanted to play for her..

 During this conversation..she taught me one of the biggest lessons of my life.."INTERDEPENDENCY" ..that everything in this universe is interdependent..and we must understand that .. i slowly realized and understood our friendship as well..when it started i thought i wanted to make her happy that it...finally it turned out to be we both were happy ..

 Her words of encouragement is still in my heart..for such words are the ones which i carry for my huge battles ahead ..i wish she was there to hear my progress and to give her support ..

After that meeting i never met her..i left to bangalore then canada..used to call her from there..we had three to four more conversation..

I came to know .. she passed away earlier this year.. 

A childhood conversation

"we were three of us..julie,ashwin,veera..we sat in the same bench ,studying 4 standard..created a logo for ourselves and a dream for three of us..

it was to create a airport...ashwin builds the port with civil work as civil engineer..i take care of planes as aeronautic engineer..julie does the legal stuff and admin..as lawyer..

after nearly twenty years looking back...we havent built a airport yet! :)..but built ourselves for what we wanted to be...i choose to be electronic engineer rather than aeronautic..ashwin choose to be computer science engineer...julie is a lawyer...dream does happen :)..."

"SO NOW WE HAD ANOTHER CONVERSATION !!!....................................................."

Lunch conversations: On tamil/sankirt..aryans/dravidians....Gaza attacks..

Present: Indian-me,Turkish,Bulgarian,chinese[all elders more than 45 yrs-expect me :)]

"Everyone was quite silence..i knew the bulgarian..others came in and joined..conversation just blasted off.....we started off with vedas...the fact was day was told by turkish..when he told " Tamils,mexicans[mayans],turkish are connected!"thats interesting...and another fact hilter was not german ,an austrian..then it shifted into israel's attacks on palestine..we all felt bad abt it..analyzing which will be super power after the recession..talks of china was domintant..wat are the factors that wld decide the world..oil or agriculture..

Lunch conversations: Oppur'nity is already present you need to be good enough to take it!!!

Present : Nimod-Indian/canadian,Laxman-Srilankan/canadian,veera-indian,kizito-Zaire/canadian

"After rounds of introduction..we got to this deep conversation,,nimod was the one to point to bill gates has to oppur'nity to work in a supercomputer from 1-3am in the morning!..as a schooling going kid woke up in the middle of the night and worked hard on that...very few had computers that time..to sum everything....these are the lines.."oppur'ity is actually present in everyone's life..its left to our to realise this quick and make this small chance..into something which can change the world!!! ...alexander bell biography which i read come to "