Passing off an ordinary day of the week days can be an extraordinary day if you have nothing to cry over. Imagine you have the best house with everything you need: a room, a TV, a laptop, a cell phone, food and drink – just lack nothing in a sense. But what do you do the whole day – get up - say your lousy prayers, sit before the television set for a while, browse in for some news and updates from around the world, sip a coffee, move out of the house for a walk around and come back to the same empty house? I mean, you may have the best of everything, but there can be a sense of emptiness, restlessness, or whatever in such a situation. This can be frustrating when you apparently have everything and lack everything - when you have no one to relate to except creating a virtual world around you with modern technologies.
I have tried not to fall into such a monotonous situation. In fact over the past weeks, I have occupied myself doing several things. Going to places has been my weakness for the moment. I stayed a couple of days at Nashua NH with Fr. Daniel, spent a weeklong at Tampa FL with Fr. Augustine Mailadiyil sharing some old and new stories of Manipur and the diocese, a day with Joyce & Annemarie NJ and occasional cookout or dinner out with Fr. Jim & Fr. Josekutty. To me each of these days had been always an extraordinary day. So if guys are wondering how I pass off my ordinary days, it has been always extraordinary, it’s as simple as that. See also the video clip.
