August 4, 2016 | Awake & Dreaming

Many people have a pet or more than one. People have cats or dogs or hamsters, love birds, parrots, macaws, snakes, spiders, etc etc. I have a crow!

A crow that comes to my balcony almost every day. Atleast it seems like it is the same crow cause once in a while it’s a different crow. One of them has a spiky hairdo…or his feathers on his head is ruffled to look more like a spike hairdo! And he looks like he could be a mean bugger.

The one that usually comes sits patiently in the morning waiting for his bit of food that we put out for him. Usually a piece of dosa, crispy is what he likes it to be. Or some left over chapathi. Some days if he has been waiting for a long time he starts to caw loudly and won’t stop until one of us puts the food on the balcony so he can take it. He won’t let us come to close though as he flies away. Still does not trust the hand that feeds ya, huh?

Somedays he doesn’t come by. I wait. Other days he is there earlier than usual. Some days he comes by in the afternoon and demands food. We give it. And wait for him to come back again.

When you do something scary or stressful — bungee jumping, public speaking, etc. — do you prefer to be surrounded by friends or by strangers? Why?

I guess having your support group with you when you have to do something which you find scary, especially the first couple of times, will be really a good thing. The more cheering faces you see, the more encouragement you get, the more you can do and the more confidence you have to achieve things that you set out to do. Public speaking can be as scary as bungee jumping or paragliding or skydiving and if you have friends with you it makes it all the more easier to do.

The support structure is very important for a lot of us and the right people egging us on can do a lot of good for you. You might even do more than what you had initially set out to do. Now, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes you might get carried away. Drink too much, jump out too soon or drive too fast. If it is to just get some confidence and support to something reasonable then it is a good thing and I hope everyone gets that kind of support.

Just don’t get carried away by peer pressure.

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