Appreciation cannot exist in INERTIA!

I shall attempt to prove my point through a series of ideas and observations. When we were young – good heavens, I never realised such a time would come in my lifetime when I would say this!!! – one game held our fancy through several stages of our growing up years – the Word maker game. As a young first grader we had this favourite car game in which Mom would give a word and ask me to think and make up as many words as I could from that word using only the letters present in that word. Years later I found an extremely cute story in one of the Sheldon’s Believe and Make-Beleive books, we bought at a book fair which had a story of a young girl who wins the US Spelling Bee competition by spelling correctly, the word: Mississippi.

We started making words with this and innumerable more such words. It was as a competition with cousins, between me and my brother or just to quietly chill out in me-time. Years later as I started teaching, this game became a permanent ‘in-between-the-lessons-kind-of-fun’ game in my classrooms.

Thus, before I decided on a topic for this post, I was trying to write out a few pages in my diary and distractedly I wrote: Appreciation. Before long I was playing my favourite Word maker game and within a few minutes had almost 34 words from it, which I use below to put up a play of words. Each capitalised word is an offshoot of the core word: APPRECIATION.

Appreciation creates CARE,
 As it removes the IRE,
 Which is the CORE
 For a REACTION,
 To a CERTAIN,
 Unfair ACTION,
 On the PART
 Of some one who is on a TRIP
 And an unreasonable RACE
 To make themselves APPEAR,
 As if an ICON!
 It is only a CREATION
 For they seem PRONE,
 To a narcissist TRAP,
 In this fast-paced ARENA,
 Where each is out to PAINT,
 The other INTO
 A dangerous PIRANA!
 It is extremely important, thus, to RETAIN,
 Our sanity as a TONIC
 In between this unnecessary PANIC
 And pick up our PEN,
 To either get POETIC,
 By writing some NOTE,
 Or get ourselves to PAT
 Someone’s work which is APPARENT
 And allow each brethren a slice of the PIE,
 A space to TIE
 The ego which is TORN
 And the opportunity to reach the TOP,
 For ONCE
 We can learn to give a high-five POP
 And in the bargain score a TON,
 By our caring actions ONE by ONE!!! 

I do my bit here and there, losing no opportunity to write in or say or do something for anyone I care. When I am appreciated for my work, for showing some care, for going a little out of the way, for being there for someone dear – I like it and have a warm glow of happiness around me for many days to come. I am a normal human being and thus reciprocate in similar ways towards my earthling friends.

Appreciation exists in vibrant souls, in animated action, in bustling thoughts, efficient agility, in a craving for enterprise, in a sincerity of response, in being alive itself!