Any nonsense (or ‘sense’ for that matter) has two facets. One is UBD and the other CDG. Guess what these could be? Well, UBD stands for Utterly Bitterly Delicious and CGD for Clutterly Gutterly Delirious.
Confused? Let me clear up the confusion and create the fusion between you and the two all time great abbreviations.
Let’s begin with bitter gourd. You must have chewed this apparently horrible thing at some points of your eating marathons. Did you like it? I’m sure you didn’t, especially when you were a beginner in the eating-habit-formation classes conducted by your Mom. She insisted you should eat the stuff and help develop infection resistant muscles of your delicate digesting system. “Ugh”, you must have said pathetically, “Momma. This is nonsense, I can’t eat it, it’s too bitter…ugh!”
As you grew older, you began finding some sense in the bitter gourd not by choice but by convincing yourself of the goodness of the thing. But then many of us may not have experienced the fact that a piece of bitter gourd, cooked or raw, would taste really delicious if you keep on chewing it till it gets sort of dissolved in your saliva. But then sure there are many who never gave bitter gourd a chance, let alone dissolving it in their mouth.
Losing our temper is a nonsense maybe unavoidable at times. But if we can avoid which we think is unavoidable, chew it down, I mean eschew the anger behind the temper-loss moments then it may really become an enjoyable, satisfying memory of the occasions when we were able to keep our sense of anger in control.
The case is same with what you call sense. For instance, the truth. Haven’t you heard umpteen times, ‘truth is always bitter’? There were two friends, A and B. A did something wrong which aggrieved some people. They dragged him to the law-court. B advised A not to admit his folly before the judge since there was not much of an evidence against him. A did exactly the opposite. He admitted his misdemeanor and was punished by the court. B got angry. “Nonsense”, he rebuked A, “Why the hell did you admit? Now, go and enjoy your time in the jail”.
A didn’t reply but thought, “If I won’t have admitted, I’d have been punished by my conscience for the rest of my life. That’d have been much worse than the limited period punishment in the jail”.
So, a conclusion can be drawn from all these that an utterly bitterly nonsense may appear deliciously health giving if you continue with it.
(Heavens! I’m not insisting you chew a bitter gourd till it dissolves in your mouth and turns delicious or you do a mistake and go on admitting it . But then you may experiment for yourself and experience).
(To be concluded)
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