This is a shaving gel bottle. This is part of my shaving kit for the past six years. Before anyone criticising me for being a miser, let me clarify that it is empty for the past three years.
My dad and myself went to a Reliance mart in late August 2017 and bought this as buy one get one free. One for him and one for me, in his last outing for shopping in his life.
He suffered a ischemic stroke shortly afterwards and compounded by his alzeimer diverse, slowly descended to a vegetative stage and passed away in just above one year.
This empty bottle reminds me of him. His amazing memory, his great humanity and kindness.
He had a strong conviction that our lives existed for helping others.
He despised the social hierarchy based on caste. He often quoted the thirukkural "அந்தணர் என்போர் அறவோர்மற் றெவ்வுயிர்க்கும்
செந்தண்மை பூண்டொழுக லான்" which means that Only persons who have kindness to spare on all life are Brahmins i.e. your birth in a caste does not determine you are Brahmin.
He also was a staunch believer that "Conscience is the greatest God".
His interest in helping students led him to devour books on Accounting and Taxation. He would tell the students these concepts like a tale. Never did he read out of the book. Infact he could recollect page numbers , solution to problems in entirety. However, when I think of it I do get a tinge of sorrow since such a brilliant mind was reduced to nothing after the stroke. He could answer only three questions out of some 30 posed to evaluate him.
Anyway the empty bottle continues its journey with me reminding me of my father.
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