Marks & Spencers!!!

It been long since something interesting happened..but it just did yesterday!!!

I have a friend who has a passion for foreign brands and consecutively little liking for Indian brands.. She says "How can one wear trousers from "Pantaloons"...they are so ill fitting and the material is so NOT GOOD ..the edges get frayed.. Try trousers from NeXT. I just bought one for 3500 and I totally love em..totally worth it." I listen quietly and for some time wonder how overpriced "Marks & Spencers", "NeXT", "GueSS" are...I am not convinced but my conviction/reasons don't matter...

The thought leaves me...

I goto the washroom and have the scariest thought!!! My children will be like her!
Oh God.........Noooooooooooooooo!! All the logic for them becoming like my friend is in place. She is stylish, finicky and spoilt... not because she was born that way but because her parents had toiled hard to reach a lifestyle where she could touch a fabric and scream 'Yuck' or 'Wow' uncaring about its price. Obiviously now she deserves to live the way she wants to, desire what entices her as she has toiled even harder than her parents!

If you understand obiviously my friend or her choices don't bother/affect me! It's something else. One life's truth hit me!! All our lives we work hard to give a better future to our children. It just means that we give our lives for the benefit of our children and by the time we achieve a beautiful life for ourselves and them we are too near our own death beds to enjoy what we toiled to build!!! and while we are no more...the lives of the coming generations improve ..step by step.

I see my grandparents and my parents and now myself... I know what it would be like for my children! and theirs. I, myself, am not ruffled at the thought/action of buying a shirt costing 1k.. my children would surely feel nothing buying one for 3k and so.... "Marks & Spencers" it is!!!

And now the loveliest conversation.. I am sharing my fears with my best friend.

AU - (Narrate my fears)
AK - Koi sawaal nahi hai. Mere bachey to bilkul aise nahi hongey. I will sit on my money.
AU - But mine will be...sadly
AK - Mere bachey ghar aake kahengey "Pitaji auntie ke bachey kitne nakchide hain... woh humko tang kar rahe the for the new clothes from Pantaloons"
AU - Mine will say..."Mum...uncles Amol's kids are so down market..."

AK - Tere aur mere bachon ki kabhie nahi banegi.
AU - Banegi at emotional levels...otherwise kategi... they will hate each other... Mere bachey khayengey "Baskin Robbins" and your will eat "Dahi Bhalla" at road side.
AK - Nahin, khaney main koi kami nahi karoonga main... Jo woh khana chahengey milega...unko branded or unbranded...costly or cheap.
(Amol obiviously cant bear the thought of no Baskin Robbins for his kids...he is such a khabooda himself. It is not for his kids he is concerned...if they dont have it would eventually mean that he wudnt be able to have too!!!!! This thought is obviously too much for my friend!!)

AK - Mere bachey tere bachon ki plate se sab kha jaya karengey.
AU - Ya and my kids will come home running and crying saying... "Does uncle Amol not give food to his children?... Are they having a famine?? in their house?"
(Saale Amol! This is exactly what he used to do with me! We would order 2 things. He would finish his portion in a jiffy...and without invitation start off with mine!!!!! Kameene)

The loveliest thought - "Kaash main apne bachon ki bachi hoti!!!"