Discover A Blessing In Disguise

There comes the aunty from next door,

“What are you doing alone,”

Sasha’s instinct was to say hatching eggs, but one did not say to the nosy Rashmi aunty next door, who would let loose her Punjabi vocabulary.

“Waiting for my friend”

“Good to see you, out glad you are not letting the scars bother you.”

All that Sasha could do was give a watery smile.

“God guided your daughter to stay home, it’s a blessing in disguise your child decided to bunk classes.”

Another statement that Sasha has heard since the day of her accident, if it was not for her daughter she would have been dead. But somehow the word blessing in disguise began getting to her,

Another watery smile,  ”Rashmiji will you have a cup of black tea?” asked Sasha nothing scared Rashmiji more than black Tea, again a typical Punjabi matriarch she liked her tea milky and sugary never mind she was hitting seventy and was a diabetic.

The words “Blessing in disguise had got her,” there were some more like, “Look at the bright side”

“Things could have been worse.” What ever… it sounded like she was handed the consolation prize to be pacified. Something really annoyed Sasha she decided to find out what exactly it meant.

The Urban dictionary had something irrelevant, but the Cambridge dictionary said, it is something that seems bad or unlucky at first but results in something good happening later.

Could be like that story where this man James applies for the job of the grave-digger at the church in during great recession after the wars, he almost gets the job because the priest knows that James is a good man. When it comes to signing the agreement James confesses that he can neither read nor write. So rather helplessly the Priest says

“I cannot give you the job because it entails filling the form.”

A dejected James returns home, his family stands by him, to keep himself busy James begins to work on the patch of garden in his back yard soon the garden blooms with vegetables and flowers and James has a business going.

Years later when his business really booms, the bank offers to support him to expand into a production industry, James tells the manager,

“We will have to wait till Tuesday, when Mary comes home.”

“Why is she a partner?”

“Not really she has to read the papers and sign them”

“Is she your lawyer”

“No she is my daughter.”

“but if she is not your partner why don’t you just read it and sign it? it will quicken the process,”

James reluctantly told the banker that he could neither read nor write,

“Amazing” said the Banker, ”all this without knowing how to read or Write, can you imagine where you would be if you could read and write.”

“Yes, of course, I would be digging graves,” Replied James.

Somewhere in 1700’s the phrase debuted, the earliest presence of this term in print media is in 1746 in a work by the English Writer James Hervey  titled reflections on a Flower Garden. As to whether he coined the phrase or not is not known.

Not bad at all, but of course nothing like getting clarity from a known source, Sasha typed in Blessing and Merriam Webster threw up

Word meaning

Blessingà

Disguise ↓

A

Word or phrase that blesses

B

Something or someone who brings happiness or welfare

C

A grace at the dinner table

X

Change from normal dressing or appearance.

AXBXCXY

Obsolete  or disfigured

AYBYCYZ

Obscure or concealing the truth.

 

AZBZCZ

 

Word or saying that blessesA thing or object that brings happiness or welfareGrace at dinner

Not bad now for the word disguise the words now were,

Change from normal in appearance or dressObsolete or disfiguredObscure or conceal facts.

so if she were to draw a grid on blessing in disguise it would be.

Blessing disguise—

AX – would be a word or phrase that blesses a change in appearance or dress…BX – something or some who brings happiness or welfare by changing appearance or dress…CX – a grace at the table changing appearance or dress…AY – a word or phrase that makes you obsolete or disfiguredBY – someone or someone who brings happiness making you obsolete or disfigured,CY – a grace at the table making you obsolete or disfigured.AZ – a word or phrase that conceals, or is obscure.BZ – someone or some who brings you happiness being obscure or concealing.CZ – a grace at the table that is obscure or concealing.

The whole table was so absurd that Sasha, that it lightened her, yes, Reshmiji’s use of the phrase was a blessing in disguise it helped emerge from her momentary depression.

‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’

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