JIMKIS AND THE HAIR WIG

JIMKIS AND THE HAIR-WIG

              One day evening after the temple visit, walking back home I decided to freak out at the new shop of the “Ali stores “, in Cochin. This new shop is mainly for the dance and drama accessories. I love jimki’s   , I have lots of them in my personal collections. (Jimkis are a particular style of earrings; they are very famous in Kerala). Still love to experiment on the new designs.

                                               The shop looked very new and beautiful. I asked the lady for the jimki’s there, she bought a box full of them. I started trying out all of them on my ears and looked in the mirror. Suddenly my eyes crossed an old lady of sixty years plus trying out on the hair wigs, that too very long ones. I looked her face, but she was not happy but she was going on trying out the hair wigs one by one, I wondered deep inside perhaps she loved hair wigs the way I loved jimkis!. Then she came next to me and asked “You love Jimkis?” I said “yes”, and I was so curious, I asked her “You love hair wigs?”There was a moment of silence, then she said “no” and lifted her hand it was swollen! “I have hand cancer, just completed one chemotherapy, and all my hair is gone.”She removed her hair wig and showed me! I was silent for some time. Then she smiled at me and introduced me to her husband who could barely walk and she left with the purchase of the hair-wig.

                            I bought some books for my son and walked back home; on the way back I felt my hair was more beautiful than the jimkis! As soon as I reached home I hugged my son lots and just smiled at myself! Life is just about living what else! Nothing wrong in loving jimki’s, but it’s also important to love the very moment of life we have in our hands!