So, you think you know it all......

Today’s my second month as a missionary in this African village. I have been trained in spirituality, medicine, culture at an NGO that has been sending out missionaries like me across third-world countries to uplift living conditions!

So why do I fumble for an answer when the old village chief asked, “So, you think you know it all! How can you tell us that going to a church, adapting modern medicines, speaking English are hallmarks of civilization while we have been content and self-sufficient for generations speaking our native language, worshipping nature - relying on her for our food, medicines?”

This fictitious post is in response to Write Tribe's 100 words on Saturday for the Prompt “So, you think you know it all".

PS: This post is highly influenced by the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. A book I have immensely enjoyed but will not even attempt to review cause the story has multiple layers running in parallel. Enjoyed it immensely and a book I will highly recommend.

Grateful.....

...A prayer on my lips, I send up a prayer of thanks to the forces up above for preventing a disaster from happening! I cant even begin to think what would have happened if the battery had exploded when the phone was in his hands or close to the ears! Thank You is all I can say.......

Shared Below is Hubbs FB status today - this incident happened just a couple of hours back....

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ATTENTION Samsung S4 USERS - I had a very narrow escape today . I felt my Samsung S4 grow very hot and immediately opened the mobile and put the battery on the table. It exploded right in front of my eyes and started spewing smoke resulting in a fire alarm in my office building. The room could not be entered for a while due to the toxic fumes. I am really lucky to have escaped otherwise the results could have been catastrophic. These phones are dangerous....... Look at the state of the battery....... Had I not taken the battery out even the phone would have melted and burnt me.

When You Love.....

Mia couldn't help smiling at herself as she served Manas his dinner. Her mind went back to her university days....

A v vocal feminist those days(not that she's changed much), Mia found it v hypocritical that her mom - a strong feminist herself who gave long sermons on gender equality through the day  -  always put her dad's needs-wishes before hers! Right from making morning tea just the way he liked to laying out his office wear to serving him hot phulkas straight from the stove! Her mom's indulgent smile every time she threw a tantrum over this only infuriated her more.....

Today two years into her marriage, she realised what her mom has always been telling her "When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."

This post is written for Hemingway this Wednesday at Write Tribe

  I chose the quote “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”   (A Farewell to Arms) 

PS: As a friend mentioned - "The difference is when someone thinks he / she is entitled to something and when things are done out of love"