I was out with my mother for shopping. We went on a search for matching bangles for my mother's saree. They were teal. A difficult colour to find when there's green available in bunch of shades. Every shop we went, they tried to sell us those green shade bangles. We walked shop to shop. Each time with less hope of being able to find that "So hard to find colour"
After a good walk of an hour here and there. Finally, yes finally, we found a woman selling those teal coloured bangles of different patterns. But she didn't have any kada ( board bangles usually worn around the glass bangles) But wait the story doesn't end here.
We surprisingly found one more guy, selling his bangles right beside the woman's small stall. He had a similar stall. So me and my mother thought, "let's check that out as well". We asked him for teal bangles and he offered them. The same price, the same bangl. He even had those beautiful kadas. We saw no difference. We asked him to make a set of bangles and kadas, as it might look best on the saree. He looked confused. Though he tried to hide it, it was very soon obvious on his face, when he tried to shuffle some bangles here and there between the kada. He made a pattern of 5 teal bangles with 2 kada and one broad bangle in between. But we didn't like it. We both didn't know WHY we didn't like it. But we both knew, something wasn't just "wohooo" about it. Thus we asked him to make another set. He didn't deny to do so, but when he started to reshuffle the bangles again, we knew for sure, he wasn't much interested. He had all the different designs of kadas and bangles. But he couldn't make a great bangle set out of it.
We later went back to that lady, she knew were tired of the search. As soon as we saw us, she asked us to wait and went to the man's stall beside. She asked him for some kadas. He gave her those. She immediately came back and started to style them. My mother and I kept observing. After 5 minutes, she shuffled and muffled the bangles and made a beautiful set. My mother and Iboth were like "wohoo". We knew we were going to buy it. We were happy. But mostly, we were surprised.
I had just seen someone "Have it all and yet not make anything great out of it" and "Someone not having everything, but making best of all they got"
"Its not the boon you are born with, it's the skill you develop and learn"
~Manisha
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