THE CHAIR

Every party,sport event,or get together normally never misses to include this item for entertaining the guests,some times for the kids,some times for the ladies who often shy away from participating and of-course at times for the Male folks too.

Well you would have guessed it its none other than the Musical chair,where the participants have to constantly aim to target a chair to sit while the scoring music abruptly stops,the game becomes more critical in the final rounds where you really have to grab the last one,always eyeing on it and if warrants by dislodging the opponent and some how get seated.and the finalist always has that pride of winning the game.

well I was never comfortable playing this game or should I say never played for two reasons

1)I could not take failures lightly even when it is a game

2I would always like to play a fair game so I may not dislodge the finalist and grab the chair,which was my weakness.

But nowI wonder ,why wasthe game coined with a chair,why the same game could not be associated,with any other item,well I can now visualise that a chair is A very important item in the life of every one,it gives a standing in the society,and to occupy a chair you have to struggle a lot,once occupied it gives you comfort,respect, power,and what not,that we get so much attached to it that we start making all types of compromises to ensure that we are not deseated.

History,tells us that many a battle were fought just to occupy the throne,

The great epic Ramayana,would not have existed it Rama was throne d as the king,

And today,we may not be seeing so much of disturbances personally within ourselves and politically within the Nation had there not been a article as a CHAIR.

beyond the desire for a particular chair,now the craving has got extended to who will sit next to whom,will I be at the head of the table or left at the trailing end,unnoticed and insignificant.

Having given this intro let us not decide that THE CRAZE for a chair exists only in official or political, hereditary issues.We in our every day life have some places earmarked within our houses as our favourite spots,which we do not want to give away to others,the moment you enter your house I AM sure each one of us would go and occupy the same position day after day subconsciously,and we are at times so very demanding that if some one is already seated there,we don't mind to vacate them and slump down into it.

The moment that a room is allocated to you in your hostel, you make sure which would be your chair and table.

Go to a cinema,get a ticket the first thing you notice is your seat number.

Beyond this i still remember an easy chair which was my dads favourite chair,he used to tell us that we should not use it because it means we are demeaning the respect for him.But invariably,we used to wait for him to leave the house and our fight to occupy it would begin and end with at least 3 to four of us lined up one behind the other,And it always gave you an extra pride when you were occupying a seat which is not yours,or not meant for you.

So no wonder that once there is a vacant chair ,the row begins to occupy it and at times we see that the only thing that has not changed in history is the never ending skirmish that keeps going on in our desire FOR a chair be it POWERED or DUMMY.

Hence forth lets encourage our kids to play the musical chair game with earnest efforts, If required have some special coaching arranged, and tutored so that they learn all the nuances of grabbing a chair first, to push out people and still have a chair for themselves,always to be watchful so that what they are not deseated,and to ensure that they garner all the energy required to hop from one chair of power to another by hook or crook,so that they remain in chair for ever