Rhea's morning.. thoughts

She looks in the mirror (reminiscent of MJ’s man in the mirror!!)And she shrieks, the minute clean pore Neutrogena mask has made her face look like a monkey’s bottom!!! She stares in amazement and starts crying... big fat tear drops rolling down her crimson cheeks and she shouts for … Ice and in a pace that would put the reigning 100mt.Olympic gold medallist Bolt to shame she whips out her Emergency Body Shop Gel mask, gently puts it on.

Rhea invokes a prayer to Babaji and promises 10 japji sahibs so that this redness goes down! She hurriedly wears her new suit-the latest creation from Abu-Jani white on white, subtlety personified. No one, in Chandigarh would have anything close to it: the thought brings a smile to her troubled face. Oh Lord, she still has to pay for it and she is overdrawn for this month. Extra cajoling and love for Ranbir tonight. Getting her sad face on (make up has to be subtle, eyes more expressive with the right lip colour from Guerlain) along with the hair done in a low bun by Asha with a little puff in the centre so that the glasses can be perched absolutely right under the dupatta.Diamonds flashing of the right cut and carat in their platinum setting (gold is so passé’) clutching her new cream on cream Judith Leiber she walks out of her house tossing instructions to Sheila. Pick up the children, give sahib his lunch, get flowers from Khullars for tonight and don’t forget book me for a pedicure at Iris.

Glancing at the time, wondering how time flies she steps on the gas to reach for the gurudwara.It is so important to be on time. Her parents had always ingrained into her a sense of discipline and punctuality. Rhea walks in the cynosure of all eyes, ramrod straight (Thanks to all those years of deportment classes) to “matha teko”. She sits down in the middle and mentally thanks herself. Joined by her coterie of friends who ooh, and aah her on her suit and her bag ….they all take Prasad from bhaiji after blotting it on their napkins.Oh so much ghee... extra cardio, for sure tomorrow.

This is the best time when they can smile and glance at the same time while keeping a solemn face and gossiping about everyone. The daughter-in-law who hurriedly picked up all the pashminas and the diamonds before the daughters could come home and poor Mrs K. shifted to the annexe in sector4 by the family as she was cramping their social life .Sad, that people who give us birth and make us who we are end up spoiling life for us.

Rhea stays for the requisite half an hour like a Prima Donna, because more time spent would lead to diluting the mystery she loves to create. Elusiveness, deflection are important in the society we live in, the walls we have created are fragile and are held up high by values which are weak and are measured not by honour, integrity but by the money, power, material things one has .And, heaven forbid if one is seen to be desi because shunning the roots and adopting a western lifestyle means one has arrived.