Brother's Essay on Mosquito

               I have already mentioned in my previous post about an essay my brother wrote on mosquito. If you haven't read the mention of it in my previous blog post, here is a little introduction about it. 

               When I was 9 - 10 years old, I was asked to write an essay on a Kannada proverb, "Kai Kesaraadare Baayi Mosaru" (Implied Meaning : Hard work pays you rich dividends. Literal Meaning : When your hands get dirty (while working) your mouth will be filled with food). That had to be written on my neatly covered and maintained essay book. I started with the introduction and wrote "if we sit at home with our hands folded and still, ..." and that was when my mother called me to the kitchen. My brother was completing his home work in the same room when I left from there. After some time when I came back, this is what I read in my essay book, under the heading "Kai Kesaraadare Baayi Mosaru" :

               "If we sit at home with our hands folded and still, (it was my hand writing till here) mosquito might come and bite our hand. Then we will have to forcefully open the folded hand and move it. But by the time we move it or shake, the mosquito might fly away. That might make us very sad. So there can be another method to keep our hands. You need to keep them on your waist, so that when a mosquito bites one hand, you can move the other hand slowly from your waist and hit on the mosquito. And that is when the mosquito gets killed successfully and that might make you extremely happy! So I can conclude that keeping hands on your waist is always better than folding them. Moral : Kattida kai mahaa maari, sontada melina kai santhoshakke daari (Folded hands are very problematic and hands on the waist are the way to happiness)!