Day 14305

No - Today's topic is not about me or anything philosophical or anything factual. It's pure 100% nonsense. ( It happens to me every time a day before the election)

Today's theme for me is one of the most abused phrase that I picked up by means of my random-phrase-search-generator.

It's called "Making mountains out of molehill". And it is usually used to indicate that someone is exaggerating a SMALL thing into BIG. It's basically directly implying that "Mountain" means BIG and "Molehill" means SMALL. And that's where I take the offence.

Didn't Shakespeare say "SIZE lies in the eyes of the beholder" (Or something like that).

Now everyone in their life would have used this phrase or its regional vernacular variant! But how many of us really know about "moles" and "molehills".

I have done extensive research on this subject (thanks to Wikipedia) and I can confidently say that for a decent family of two working moles, a baby mole, and a child mole , the "molehill" is actually quiet spacious! In fact it can even host the in-laws (one at a time) in case required but then like Humans, in-laws are not welcome too many times in a year.

...So then in what way is it small!! Well , Yes SMALL for HUMANS but nor for MOLES!

Okay - I know what you are thinking. You must be thinking that do we really need this discussion when Bangalore faces a real, and I really mean a Real-estate issues. I don't deny that there is indeed shortage of space on roads, shortage of water supply, shortage of money to pay back to Credit Card Banks, shortage of iPhones and especially iPAD Air and many more essential commodities like that. But then we (as Human) need to be sensitive to our environment. "Moles" are an integral part of our nature (I mean not the moles on the human body, but the real ones...You know what I am talking about) and we need to care about them.

Okay I got carried away. My intent was to share my profound knowledge on "Mole Hill". So Mole Hills (like Beverly Hills) come in three variants. They are sometime stacked one on top of another with a neat basement under the ground. They are called "Molartments" . Then there are individual dwelling with a decent back and front yard. They are not called anything.
And there are those gated communities called "Millaments" where you get the best of both - A independent house called "Millas" (like Villas) and the benefit of community which then appoints a "association". The association then takes care of all email chains, General purposeless meetings etc.

These days they even have "theme" based Millaments and Molartments like the one on "Disney".

According to economic statistical Institute, it is expected that with increase in Apartments and Villa complexes throughout the country, Moles and Molehills are posed at a growth of 22.34% CAGR annually (21.73% Y-on-Y) . If you take into account the mortality rate of only 3% in that species, we are looking at a Billion dollar industry out there!!

So I am sure by now, you understand where I am leading you towards. Yes - you are right. Throughout history it has been a wrong connotation of usage of the word "Molehill". It's not SMALL anymore. On behalf of All India Mole association, we condemn the usage of that phrase anymore.

In fact CK Prahlad realized this long before any of us. He even wrote a few 500 page book called "Fortune at the bottom of Molehill" ( Yes - He meant that, but one of his Egyptian descendent Publisher changed that to "Pyramid")

That's all. I rest my case.

PS: Who said you can' write if you don't have a content. I just managed in proving that if required one can even make "sentences and blogs" out of molehill!!