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karvachauth .
Why i did all that- I did coz I love. That's it.

I did not like when i was all decked up and dolled to be taken to mandir.
Heavy makeup, heavy jewellery, heavy heavy saari that made my left shoulder pain. Fasting is all good. But this useless dikhava n all is really something I abhor. Whole day was spent in that. isliye ghar aake , i changed to a lighter one that keeps me comfy comfy.
In that mandir, there were matajis who , I assume, were caretakers of mandir management. That toli of old matajis were sitting like maharanis, instructing some other women who came, to do this n that. Then, when everything was set as if stage was ready for the show, one of the senior mataji started saying karvachauth story. It was long and crude. As if made by own. Their own imagination. Gist of that story is - some mahila, who forgot to keep this fast, was troubled by gods. Her husband was later killed by the gods. Then she remembered that she missed keeping that fast. She apologized infront of gods n kept the fast next time. Her husband was made alive by the gods. Strange! I am never gonna worship such weird n bizarre gods. I went there to keep ma-in-law happy. But neither am gonna accept that story , nor their ways. Instead of wasting time in those things, I could have done dhyaan n mantra saadhna on my own.
Anyways, more than half of the people there were more than half asleep. I donno was it becoz they were not interested in the story or was it becoz they were too tired of hearing n doing the same thing over n over again...And suddenly the story came to an end and toli of matajis started beating dhol manjeeres jostling the slept ones out of their slumber. I guess, wo zor zor se keertan karne ka objective yahi tha- sote hue logon ko jagane ke liye..! Then everyone touched the feet of matajis , they doled out prashad and everyone got back to their homes.It was evening by then. Hamain lagtaa hai, pure dinn shayad ye sabb main wo log iseeliye lage rahti hongi jisse bhukh feel naa ho gaane bajaane main ! Lol
I would like to do the things differently.