Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Unusually Shaped Vegetable
While making the regular weekly purchases of vegetables, I chanced on this unusually shaped vegetable. It was a brinjal (eggplant). As I picked it up I felt the brinjal saying ‘Thumbs up! Come on pick me up!’
Later the vendor weighed it and returned it to me, she was holding the brinjal in such a way, as if it was saying and mocking at me ‘Thumbs down!’
I shook my head, that can’t be, it has to be thumbs up. At home all of us had a good look at the brinjal, my daughters found this unusually shaped vegetable funny.
My husband was more interested whether it will be begun bhaja or begun poda.
As I was trying out my culinary skills on the brinjal I was thinking…
Inspiring Unusually Shaped Vegetable
Every day in life we stumble on various characters which leaves a lasting impression in our minds. Sometimes they make our day and sometimes they ruin our spirits. And as I am growing older it is dawning on me how a positive spin on life can dramatically improve our life.
Accumulating negative emotions develops negative attitude towards life. With various characters perpetuating a negative thinking, it is our understanding and appreciating the significance of what is being told that will help us absorb the positive message.
Remember the character Eeyore in Winne the Pooh preaching the negative message? As a child have we ever got influenced by him? It was Pooh, Tigger and the rest whom we appreciated.
“Each of us must make a decision, best captured in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh characters. Am I a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore?” So asks Randy Pausch in his Parade Magazine article (April 6, 2008). RIP, Randy! We hope to translate your life’s lessons into our own lives.
God has given us the choice of how to analyze the various situations around us and shape the life He has given us. Now it depends on us whether we make an optimistic note or pessimistic note of the events in our life.
So friends, is it ‘Thumbs Up’ or ‘Thumbs Down’?
Also read: Brinjal has a Cap, a child’s imagination
Interested in animal faced brinjal? Check here: Gomukh Baingan, a Wild Brinjal
Thanks Indrani for the trip down memory lane for me .. I have visited the Chamundi Temple , Tipu Sultan’s Palace [this was an intriguing and extremely imaginative pic :)]and The Banyan too ..but years and years ago . This was a nice nostalgic read for me .
I have always admired your ability to find the most unique and diverse topics to post and this perhaps is a great example of your talent !
So I of course say a great big
THUMBS UP !!! 🙂
Hello! Indrani I’m having a long vacation I miss blogging Olympic games made me stuck on television after a week of taking care of my sick little boy…Now I’m back missing to read your post..thumbs up for me of course.
I agree with Chris..
“Sometimes I’m Eeyore, sometimes I’m Tigger. Often I’m more like Pooh — a bear of very little brain.”
But we can choose more and more to be Tigger. As you have pointed out Indrani.
Lessons from an eggplant..keep going Indrani
Thumbs up, certainly, though I’m not at all fond of brinjal.
for me, it has to b thumbs up. thumbs down only at the very last moments after all has been tried n done
There was once an astute village elder who used to answer all the
questions of the villagers. A couple of young lads wanted to
prove that he wasn’t all that wise. They took a small bird in
their hand, hid it behind their back and asked him… ” Could you
tell whether the bird in our hand is dead or alive?”. They had
planned to kill the bird and display if the wise man said that
it’s alive or show as it is, if he tells it’s dead..!!!
The elderly man smiled and said… “Whether it’s alive or dead
is all in your hands”.
Extending the moral – Whether the KAThirikai shows thumbs up or down
is all in our hands ? …!!!! 😀
Hi Indrani,
Hope you are doing fine. I am back on the blogosphere; and with a new blog. Please visit it…
Pradeep
Firstly, I loved your post, becasue i think in the same line – One needs to think positively in life to enjoy it. I had once written a post with similar thought about something that made me look at positive side of life. Thought of sharing it with you –
http://thehourssofar.blogspot.com/2007/03/postive-thoughts.html
that’s an amusing eggplant!
and it has prompted you to convey a very nice message… i prefer thumbs up!
That is AWESOME! Thumbs up TOTALLY!
That was a nice one Indrani, with the old lesson 🙂
Thumbs up for a brilliant post, and I like your introspection on life. Cheers!
You always have such interesting blogs on various subjects…you can see a message even in shopping…good job…cheers.
Thank you for stopping by on my blog….I really enjoyed your blog too.
Indarani thank for stopping by on my blog….I really enjoy your blog too.
I love eggplant. How cute is that one??
I think it should always be thumbs up.
Thanks for dropping by my PSF post. This eggplant is really cute! I say thumbs up! =)
I always loved eeyore. Cool find though.
Always a thumbs up! We all need to focus on the positive in life. I think it’s a great picture. Totally makes me smile. 🙂
the good old is the glass half full or half empty…
interesting fruit though 😉
Definitely funny looking. But how true all of what you said is. Wow.
What deep thought inspired by this purchase. thaks for sharing.
It is all in the perspective – what a neat lesson.
Tempting brinjal!
How cool! Way too cool! Funny eggplant! Great picking!
Yup, i would want a thumbs up, no doubt! You’re lucky to have such a queer vegetable in your hands!
No, Eeyore is the best. The rest are too over the top happy/psychotic. Eeyore is much closer to being a realist.
How cool are you for getting a life lesson out of veggie shopping??!! I LOVE it.
And most certainly thumbs UP.
That is a fantastic piece. Thank you for the message. Sometimes I’m Eeyore, sometimes I’m Tigger. Often I’m more like Pooh — a bear of very little brain.
That is one funny Eggplant!!!!!
How cool is THAT.
I definitely say thumbs up.
The mantra as per me :
No matter how old we are we should try to keep alive the child within each of us…