We all know the Humble Follower has been silent lately. Well, as it turns out, he was trying to emulate his Guru, the Humble Holyman’s holy vanishing acts; however, Humble Follower’s inexperience and his indulgence in worldly comforts have cost him dearly as it caused serious consequences the price of which he is still paying.
Given his current myriad of problems, it now appears that the humble Follower deviated from is holy lifestyle and instead indulged in a lifestyle and comforts that are only adorned by mortal beings. With such an unholy deviation, as expected, all hell broke loose initiating a dangerous chain reaction starting from him being on fire at around 40C for the past three weeks. His mortal car could not handle the heat and developed some mysterious issues that could neither be identified nor worked out at the inefficient local mortal car dealership. Frustrated with his exchanges with the mortal dealer, he decided to write to the senior executive of the car company asking for help. The help came with more pain and after much running around (that has resulted in weight loss….poor Humble Follower) in all that heat, the software issues that had created a lot of gremlins have now finally been tamed by the mortal mechanics who loaded the malicious software updates to keep them in check.
And only when his mortal car was all fixed up for the long weekend, the Humble Follower smiled and stepped back to take a good look and to appreciate the contours of his mortal car, he was jolted yet again from his dreamscape only to find out his mortal air conditioner at home simply stopped working thus causing another crisis of human proportions. There was heat outside and heat inside with no respite for the humble Follower either inside or outside. And with all this heat when he started to ask for things to cool down, well, things did literally cool down….his mortal refrigerator in the kitchen decided, all by itself, to start kicking and spilling ice and more ice from the dispenser all over the place. The naughty refrigerator would just not stop and instead it kept on throwing up and throwing up and throwing up.
And instead of enjoying the cool touch of all that ice popping out of the dispenser and getting much needed respite from all that outside and inside heat, the humble Follower was actually fuming at all of these developments and even forgot to take the opportunity to make an iceman to cool his tempers down in this hot summer. He now awaits the arrival of the mortal electricians to visit and fix all his mortal cooling machines so that he may bring the 40C temperature a little lower, at least, within the confines of his mortally human abode.
Well, what the humble Follower has experienced within a few hours of his stay in the mortal world goes to show you how the mortal beings spend a lifetime worrying about worldly matters, living in agony and frustration from one problem to another while depending on trivial materialistic things for comfort but without spending even a single moment thinking and reflecting on the meaning of mortal life.
Look forward to welcoming the humble Follower back from his worldly experience soon. Hopefully, he will return with valuable lesson learnt from his hot experience and would be better prepared for the next vanishing act.
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