SURROGATE PILGRIMAGE IN ORDER TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO "OOPERWALA" !
After online prasad, what next? Will e-commerce provide a service by which a surrogate ‘you’ will trek to a pilgrimage site on your behalf in order to fulfil a pledge you’d made to undertake the journey if a boon were granted to you? Say you’d prayed that you'd hike all the way up to Vaishno Devi if you got the job promotion you yearned for, or got cured of a chronic ailment. And your prayers came true, and you got the promotion you wanted, or the cure that you’d sought. Now, to fulfil your part of the bargain with the Ooperwala you’d be obliged to take time off to undertake the pilgrimage you’d promised to make. Darn. How inconvenient. Not to mention physically taxing. But what if someone were to do it for you? It would be a win-win situation for all concerned. For you, who didn't have to go through the hassle of a pilgrimage; for the organisation which earned money by providing you the service of a pilgrimage-by-proxy; and for the Ooperwala whose received blessings had duly been acknowledged in the promised thanksgiving exercise.
After online prasad, what next? Will e-commerce provide a service by which a surrogate ‘you’ will trek to a pilgrimage site on your behalf in order to fulfil a pledge you’d made to undertake the journey if a boon were granted to you? Say you’d prayed that you'd hike all the way up to Vaishno Devi if you got the job promotion you yearned for, or got cured of a chronic ailment. And your prayers came true, and you got the promotion you wanted, or the cure that you’d sought. Now, to fulfil your part of the bargain with the Ooperwala you’d be obliged to take time off to undertake the pilgrimage you’d promised to make. Darn. How inconvenient. Not to mention physically taxing. But what if someone were to do it for you? It would be a win-win situation for all concerned. For you, who didn't have to go through the hassle of a pilgrimage; for the organisation which earned money by providing you the service of a pilgrimage-by-proxy; and for the Ooperwala whose received blessings had duly been acknowledged in the promised thanksgiving exercise.
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