Sunday morning, as usual, I got up lazily after 10AM, that too because of a knock on the door, it was my Manager who had brought Ganpati prasadam for us. It was Ganesh Chaturti – first day of the Ganpati festival. Had it not been for our Manager, we would have got no clue of this, in the foreign land. We then started discussing about how things are there back in India on this particular day, only to be disrupted by our empty tummies shouting for tea and breakfast.
Later during the day, we planned a visit to The History Museum. I had had enough of stones, monuments, crystals, animals, birds and so on during previous day’s visit to Oxford. Yet, I accompanied the group thinking it was better than getting bored at home.
Going around the glass cases in the museum showcasing stones and crystals seemed like a repetition, my legs were aching already; my eyeballs were almost to fall out looking at the old stones, of which I understood nothing, at one point calcium, lime, potassium appeared same to me. However, I continued browsing through the glass cases. Surprisingly one stone or crystal caught my attention and my aggravations and compunctions changed into a brisk smile, which only broadened as I took a closer look at the stone. The stone somehow appeared to me as something in shape of Ganpati. Did I suddenly, out of sheer annoyance, start missing the Ganpati festival so much that Ganpati started to appear in every stone that I looked at? I immediately clicked 2-3 pictures of it and check later if I could still see the same thing or was it just a mirage.
Later during the day, we planned a visit to The History Museum. I had had enough of stones, monuments, crystals, animals, birds and so on during previous day’s visit to Oxford. Yet, I accompanied the group thinking it was better than getting bored at home.
Going around the glass cases in the museum showcasing stones and crystals seemed like a repetition, my legs were aching already; my eyeballs were almost to fall out looking at the old stones, of which I understood nothing, at one point calcium, lime, potassium appeared same to me. However, I continued browsing through the glass cases. Surprisingly one stone or crystal caught my attention and my aggravations and compunctions changed into a brisk smile, which only broadened as I took a closer look at the stone. The stone somehow appeared to me as something in shape of Ganpati. Did I suddenly, out of sheer annoyance, start missing the Ganpati festival so much that Ganpati started to appear in every stone that I looked at? I immediately clicked 2-3 pictures of it and check later if I could still see the same thing or was it just a mirage.
Even after returning home it appeared like Ganpati. My photography skills are little below average, yet I have bravely uploaded the picture here. If you can’t see anything in that picture and it just appears as a stone to you, don’t bother at all – just keep the faith and smile away. I still have one :-)
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Fantastic photo...indeed it does look like Lord Ganapati. Cool