Dandy is the Candy

Am I ready to blog about this week’s theme 'Candy is dandy'?  

I am not too sure. But I have to be. This has been a great week. Two of the nicest things to have happened in a long time happened: my dancing in Chennai and a long-awaited lunch of seven years finally.

This made me forget about my writing for this week. So here it is, almost late for the week.

Candy is Dandy!  Is candy dandy?  As kids, sure it is. But as you grow up, you will be constantly told the consequences of eating too much candy. Bad teeth, gums, bad breath, diabetes and so on. There are always mothers telling you about putting on weight, wife at your back telling you how your sugar levels are increasing. How could all this make candy dandy?

I love watching the faces of children light up the moment they see candy. As a teenager, I was very fond of Poppins and Ravalgaon hard boiled sweets. This carried on till I almost finished my engineering studies. I remember as I am typing, one of my classmates, Joseph Victor would just put his hand in my shirt pocket and would come out with Poppins or peanut balls from my pocket in the bus stop at college. He would do that whenever he felt hungry and he sure would find something. I enjoyed my candy very much.  The Spouse is always after me, telling me for years, what I should eat and what I should not eat, not that it makes much of a difference to my attitude.  I enjoy them even today and hope that I will continue too.

And to me candy will always be dandy.