STRESS BUSTER

 Are we not living  in a periods UNTOLD STRESS, our day begins with lots of expectations and ends with disappointment   to make things worse  there is no channel (I did’nt mean the numerous tv channels) to let it out.and gets  worsen The series of serials(soaps) make our day even more dreadful.,where every heart is heavy with grief and no one to share to, well this is when I remembered. how wonderful it would be to have a marappachi boomai,   Some of us would have been the fortunate’s( or unfortunates)to have possessed one of these dolls the marappacci boomai, I said fortunate, because you atleast had this piece to play with, and unfortunate, because we never had the ,money nor luck to have those soft big plump teddies which are found even on road side shops today .well the advantage of a marappachi boomai, was it was made of wood, it was the cheapest and you can drape it with a saree and blouse or with dhothi and shirt out of unused rags collected from the tailor shops,. Sort of identified more with your practical life style, desi you can say.  The other option was to live with those plastic missi  boomai or doctor doll. which gave you very little scope for your imagination and creativity. cause they either came with a painted attire or they were just a single piece of mould .well I guess this intro for the Stress buster marappachi is enough.By now the guys and girls who had the opportunity to play with them would have recalled their part of life . AND WONDERING well how can this become a stress buster?

well here is a small story recalled .once upon a time there lived a brother and sister who were orphaned at  young age so each other had to complement the absence of their parent and lived a simple life by going to the nearby forest and by collecting some wood and twigs were making a living.A portion of the forest was prohibited for venturing saying that the fruits in those trees were poisonous(recall garden of eden) by and large people kept away from it, one day the girl with her curiosity going beyond control entered the prohibited area.,much to the resistance of her friends. she found the place wonderful with colourful flowers and fruits, she had a few fruits to consume, and this episode vanished as days passed the girl found that there were some abnormal changes in her and one day she gave birth to a baby girl(courtesy the fruit she had). The girl was scared to have become an unwed mother, so she took the extreme step of hiding the child in a bundle of clothes in a corner of the house and committed suicide by jumping into the well  in her house. The girl used to nurse the child and take care of her as a fairy mother. The brother who was not aware of these developments was terribly aggrieved on the sudden death of his sister and never knew the reason for her death. Years rolled by and the man(boy brother)decided to marry and brought home his new wed wife,  who was by nature a bad lady.  One day when the wife was in the process of cleaning the house sighted the child  in the corner.Already being a wicked lady, she took the child to a faraway place abandoned the child and returned home. The small girl was crying stranded on the street not knowing whats  in store for her. Incidentally  the man of the house, passed by  he saw the small child crying ,the child brought back reminiscence of his baby sister, so  he decided to take the child to his house, and bring her up. His wife was to take custody of the child.

 The lady was terribly annoyed to see the imp back so she started to ill treat the girl in her own way by taxing her with lots of work, not giving enough food to eat and abusing her throughout the day. The only consoling fact was the small love what she got from her uncle(maternal.)Every day when the man used to set out to work the girl used to ask him for a marappachi  boomai,and when he returned .    she used to expectantly see whether he has got her gift, the girl was upset every time  she found him coming empty hand, but the girl never failed to remind him about the marrapachi boomai. The man was really sorry that he was forgetting this in his daily chores, so one day he knotted his handkerchief so as to remember to fulfill the girls wish. Fortunately that day he saw the knot while returning home and purchased a marappachi boomai for the girl from the market. The baby girl was overjoyed and never parted with the doll. But the man was interested to see what was the way in which the girl proposed to play with her doll. when the lights were put off and everyone went to sleep a feeble voice was heard whispering something, so the man sharpened  his ears to overhear  what was being  spoken   the  girl was talking to the marappachi boomai, telling it time and again thoogathey marappachi,etha kelu marappachi(don’t sleep listen to me)and what she was telling was the life  story of her mother and uncle and how she was being ill treated by the lady of the house. Every thing became clear to the brother and the mysery of his sisters death too was solved . with renewed bondage he and the kid lived happily thereafter. Well in todays busy schedules each one of us have our own burdens to bear and we hardly have a patient ear to listen to our joy and sorrow hence I suggested ,lets have a marappachi bomai, its cheap, maintenance free ,no need to scrub and wash. Besides these it’s easy to handle, doesn’t break and we need not bang our heads with frustration, the doll can take .it. Above all you have a nice goodnight tale for your kids to pass on. 

well if people have started reading this with expectations of a few  tips to keep your worries at bay, well   listen to soothing music, sing aloud  even if it sounds weird, dress up to make your day, make some one happy every day,  thrust in god.  and of course washing clothes and spending a whole one hour in the bath room  is really a wonderful way of releasing your stress(put all you anger pressure and might on the clothes)you get a wonder ful laundry done