Leave your Chappals Outside!!!!

[rajmiarun]

Dear friends,
Pls dont think that I have gone crazy but posting such things. I can hear you people telling, Oh why, we generally leave our chappals outside (and those of us have the habit of wearing chappals inside the house, wear that one what is the big deal!!!)

Yes it is indeed a big deal.

It is a very big lesson we all should learn in our life which most of us dont follow.

I have seen many people (not those who work from home), burning the midnight oil and checking their files, checking their mails, clearing off some work. Now a days, people in IT field are expected to be at work almost all the 24 hours. But that does never makes any sense.

Let me come to the point. Here what I meany by Leave your Chappals outside is, we normally wear our official attire to office. The last thing we wear is our shoes or the chappals. And that is the first thing we leave outside the house when we enter. Let us leave all our official worries and official problems just in the place where we leave our chappals. You can wear them the next day morning.

If you bring them into the house, the harmony of the house is definitely lost. I dont know how many of you will agree with me and how many of you will say that in today's world that is impossible. But the truth is if you leave your office just in the place where you leave your chappals atleast for half an hour, you can learn a bit more about your family.

You will get some time to spend with kids, some time to talk with your spouse, if you have your parents with you, some time to chat with them. Your kids will be raving to tell you something, and just the moment, you enter, you start with your work again, then it is not going to be fair. Instead of coming home, you could have stayed back at office itself.

This may seem to be written for men at large. But it is for today's women, today's Naaris also because most of them are working women.

So friends, let us learn to leave our chappals outside.

[mukti]

Rajmi
Well narrated with lesson to learn. When I started reading I was thinking you are writing about "Dont wear shoes and chappals in the house"
Very Intresting.

[rajmiarun]

Rajmi
Well narrated with lesson to learn. When I started reading I was thinking you are writing about "Dont wear shoes and chappals in the house"
Very Intresting.

Dear Mukti,
Thanks for your feedback. This is a lesson I have learnt from my dad. He was a government official in a very high profile. He have never bought his official tensions inside the home. When I started my first job and came home highly tensed, this was the advise he gave me. If you leave your official worries outside, then you can have a harmony in life and all through these years, I have been like that, was his reply. Till date I am following that. Leave your household tensions the moment you wear your shoes, and leave your official tensions, the moment you leave your shoes outside the house.

[malspie]

Hi Raj,

I never let anyone wear their boots or chappals in. Though they walk in to my home but is limited to the passage where I pull a stool for them, they sit on it and remove their shoes and then walk in.

My neighbours have the habit of walking with their shoes straight inside! I have told them many times, but they dont listen to me.

I hate wearing outside footwear at home because I am a cleanliness freak who being a working woman still finds time to scrub the floor with detergent at least once a month!

[mukti]

Rajmi
I agree with you, never bring office tension at home and spoil the peace at home and nver carry home tension at office and keep worrying
Mals
You are like me. Even I dont like anybody wearing outisde chappals in my house. I request them to keep it out and if they dont listen, I tell them it is religious and so far people have respected.

[Nurani]

Hi Rajmi,

I usually wear chappals at home but those I never wear when I go out.

I change into my outside slippers when I go out and when am at home I have my own home slippers, because I am so scared of electric shocks.

I have got so many in my childhood and am very accidental prone too. So even my hubby will not let me walk bare footed at home.

Like you said I always keep things which are to be left at home right there just like the slippers. I am very particular about things which should be inside the house and the things that should be left outside before entering the house.

You are right, office work and tension should not come to the house and home tension should not go to the office ( There are people doing that too )

[Nurani]

Hi Raj,

I never let anyone wear their boots or chappals in. Though they walk in to my home but is limited to the passage where I pull a stool for them, they sti on it and remove their shoes and then walk in.

My neighbours have the habit of walking with their shoes straight inside! I have told them many times, but they dont listen to me.

I hate wearing outside footwear at home because I am a cleanliness freak who being a working woman still finds time to scrub the floor with detergent at least once a month!

Hi Mals,

I never take my slippers inside some one else house. I leave it out and enter barefooted.

I also don't like to see others get in with their slippers.

[malspie]

Hi Folks,

I am happy to know there are many like minded sakhis with me!

Nurani,

I also have a pair of slip ons to wear at home, but it is exclusively for home and I will never step out with it!

I have seen many people walking with outside shoes and chappals freely in home and reach kitchen and bedroom too!

How unhygienic!

[ANKIE]

Rajmi!

Totally agree with u on this! One for in-house and one to go out with!

Can never think of walking into the house with the Sandals/Shoes used outside...totally NO-NO from me! And trust me, I hate when people walk in with their shoes......but at times, have to just grin and bear!:(:D

[rajmiarun]

My God,
The entire thread have taken into a different twist. Here what I have meant is leaving our office tensions and other tensions along with the chappals. And lo people have started discussing having two chappals one for home and the other for outside.

Ok let me too join that clan. We dont wear chappals at home and I make sure that every one in the home, washes their legs once they come inside the house. This is only for family members. Others we cant insist. But, I dont appreciate people walking in with their chappals. And I tell them pls leave it outside in the place.

[ANKIE]

Yohoooooooo! :D: I sound like an idiot! HAd a good laugh though!

[malspie]

I am the culprit, may be people felt leaving chappals outside cannot leave the tensions as we carry the laptop inside!!

[ANKIE]

I am the culprit, may be people felt leaving chappals outside cannot leave the tensions as we carry the laptop inside!!


True Mals! I carry the laptop around....carrying all the tensions!

[shilpagodge]

Rajmi
Very good wriitng. As I was reading FB's on this thread, had hearty laugh and forgot all my tension of the day.

[sandraose]

Rajmi
I have decided to follow this rule of leaving my office tension outsdie the house and not to carry home tension to the office.
I learnt a lesson from your literature at the same time had a hearty laugh from the FB's and how it took turn :)

[rajmiarun]

Rajmi
I have decided to follow this rule of leaving my office tension outsdie the house and not to carry home tension to the office.
I learnt a lesson from your literature at the same time had a hearty laugh from the FB's and how it took turn :)

Thanks Sandaraose for your feed back and that decision you have taken is very wise.

[Tweety]

I am ice cool and never take any tensions office or home. Why worry when you know you can do nothing about it. when it has to happen it will happen and be prepared either to face it or amend it. Do not waste time plodding about it.

[rajmiarun]

I am ice cool and never take any tensions office or home. Why worry when you know you can do nothing about it. when it has to happen it will happen and be prepared either to face it or amend it. Do not waste time plodding about it.

Thats a real cool mentality Tweety, but do you know not all follow that. I still know people who carry all their office tensions home and try to ruin the life of their loved ones.

[sabmeh]

It is very good mentality to keep peace at home. FB's by Sakhis were very entertaining as it took completely new turn. We learnt 2 thinsg from your story
1 Do not carry office tension to home and vice versa
2. Do not wear outside chappals at home :)

[tulsi34]

Rajmi, good lesson to learn from your story. Dont mix your tension. Leave office tension at office.
By the way FB's on this post gave a big turn of cleanliness and leaving your chappal outside home. :)

[shanthi krishnakumar]

I totally agree with you and it is my view too. Thanks rajami . Both of us are having the same wavelength.

[dr.jyoti gupta]

dear shanthi,i must thank you because i had missed this thread from a long time and because of you,i read it.rajmi,i always had a habit of changing my dress and chappals after returning from outside.say shopping or office.it gives a great relief.but your point of view was mindblowing.thanks.this is the reason and we remove the whole lot of stress and burden by changing chappals and dress.

[aquamarine]

Dear Rajmi,

A fantastic metaphor and a very interesting read.

warm wishes,

aquamarine