The chronicles of Greeting.

The whole evening of February 19th, 2009, we (Uzra & Asbah)  pondered over the eternal mystery of greetings. And in the  ordeal of Thinking, the less-common-trait-in-us, many questions  dared raising their heads in our minds. Wayward random questions like ;

1) What is Greeting?

2) How important it is to greet the other person in first  place?

2) What is the importance of sweetly greeting others? spicing  it with a smile ?

3) How about a prayer is offered as greeting?

4) why not rebelling from the usual "hey" or "hi" , “hello”  etc?

(In the confusion we forgot that we had repeated the question  no 2, twice and asked 5 questions instead of 4, have you  overlooked too ?? ;) lol! recheck)

We brainstormed with heads in hands, eyes on sky and gray  matterial consuming at the speed of light! and in the process  when the three hundred fifty seventh minute lapsed, a miracle  happened!

A vivid (Shocking-) Pink figure appeared to be reeling in air,  under the sky and above the ground. And even before we could  raise the slogan of “yayy Stepman!!! Superheroes ka baap", That  figure landed in his So-Very-Traditional-way-to-land, head down  and legs up!

It took him solid three minutes and forty five seconds to  figure out why the sky is beneath his feet and to decide which  way to stand (legs up or head !) and another bunch of four  minntes and 50 seconds to understand what we were saying (we  had to repeat each word thrice and each line twice to let him  engulf and assimilate the "dilemma") 

It was then, when he uttered a 'hi', (or was it 'Hello'??) we  realized what was consuming our thought-energy. Yes, Greetings. 

And while the realization was going on, he revealed the  'why-had-he-decended-down', because we were staring at him  asking for help (remember we've inculcated the habit of  thinking by looking up at the sky). We apologised by clearning  the fact that two of us were enough help for each other and  that we owed him gratitude. And the busy super-hero flew off to  find other needers of help :P

and we got back to the thought, generally we greet with a "hey"  or "hi" which if translated in hindi or Urdu would mean 'oyay'  or 'abay oo' very much unethical and inconvinient for a  traditional people like us

and we're so againt the idea of abusing friends just for the  sake of it, (we over heard a collegue accousting her best  friend as 'oh kameeni' (oh you moron), and we grieved!)

There is a very clear limit in between friends and enemies and  we believe that it should be honoured and preferred, and  treating both in a same way would prolly spoil the difference!

Lets be innovative and lets learn different ways of greeting  our best people, and that is obviously, with love.

Afrikaans: Goeie More = Hello

Arabic: Marhaba = Hello

Malaysia: Selamat Datang = Welcome

Chinese: Ni Hao! = Hello

Farsi: Assalamualikum = May Peace be upon you!

French: Bonjour = Hello.

Greek: Geia sou = Hello

Irish: Dia duit = Hello

Japanese: Ohio = Hi

Latin: Salve = Hello

Nepali/Indian: Namaste = Hello

Pidgin English: Gude = Hello

Portuguese: Ola = Hi

Spanish: ¡Hola! = Hi 

Vietnamese: Chao = Hello

so, here it is now, tell us what do you all think about it,  because personally we dont like 'HELLo' you greeting someone  with a HELL? tsk! but then, thats strictly our opinion :)

PS. Thanks to StepMan for being help :D

wishes and prayers!

Think innovative,

because, An !dea can change a lounge ;)