A tooth for a tooth, an I for an I

Ever wondered what distinguishes us from one another…you from me, her from her, him from the whole lot of them? Is it the way we walk, the way we talk, the way we think, the way we look at life…is it our height, weight, mass or density?

Well, all of these may and do have their role to play in the portfolio we hide or flaunt. But ahhhhhhh, u still escaped the rudiments…what distinguishes us primarily from our lookalike homosapiens is nothing else but two sets of ….TEETH.

Just the other day, I saw my grandmother, through the foggy glass window of the bus I was travelling by. I checked my pulse and tried to find out whether my heart is still beating. All that to confirm whether I am alive still…How else do I get a glimpse of the dear good old dead lady face to face , unless this bus is the one which is carrying me to my final destination? I would have crossed myself , reluctantly happy at the thought of resting at peace, when suddenly I realised the truth behind my granny’s grand reappearance. It was two sets of missing teeth…my grandmother and the lady looked alike because both of them lacked teeth…and both of them ( Thamma confirmed, the old lady I am guessing) must have stoically resisted a pair of dentures.

That kinda led me into an epiphany. I started visualizing you and me and them in terms of our teethlessness. And all of a sudden, we all looked fundaDENTALLY alike.

It brings comfort. It brings satisfaction. To know that perhaps my skull and Brad Pitt’s are interchangeable if only the teeth part is taken to task !

And that relieves our ever probing mind from its teething doubts. Identity becomes demonstrably simpler and to a great extent dependent upon the presence or absence of our teeth. The karmic uniformity and intertwining identity that we dig our teeth into right from our birth, finally boil down to the small, calcified, hard, whitish ( a choice of colours from the shade card available at the dentists’ store) structures found in the mouth. Silly palaeontologists have broken their teeth to establish uniform connections between fossil species through their teeth without grasping the paradox of it all.

So that’s my point, however, flawed my logic of Teethology is. In order to bring uniformity and unity and harmony and equity, strip urself of ur ego , ur wealth and ur teeth. And soon fighting Tooth and Nail for our existence would become history. After all you need to distinguish people’s faces to hate them. After all you need to distinguish people to kill them. Won’t identity cards suffer from identity crisis if they exhibit toothless mammals all through? That InciDENTALLY and acciDENTALLY... my dear ,Teethonus, remains the question and the answer...take ur pick as u pick ur tooth...:)