To The Girls
I have seen this famous scene from The Girls on the Bus where Carla Gugino's character Grace Gordon Greene tells her daughter "The work is the list of my obituary and you, my dear, are the last." And when the daughter asks her who will read her obituary, Grace replies "Believe it or not, I have friends." And today I was reminded that if we are fortunate enough to have some good friends, we will for sure have someone to cry at our funeral and read our obituary. When my Ammammai, Bhagavathy, died, we realised how many friends that 4th pass, Music diploma holding, housewife had. My parents, my Thatha (grandfather), and my uncles have a lot of friends and acquaintances, who came over to pay respect to my dead grandmother, but what amazed us was the number of people who were just Bhagavathy's friends who came to say the final goodbye; the friends she made at the temples and at the Carnatic Music concerts that she made sure to attend. The simple housewife who wa...
