What’s your purpose of visit?

Sometimes, language seems to be an insufficient tool to deliver the true message or emotion. Never thought, that the simple English word - “Irony” would itself catch its own language into being ironical.

How?

Here’s the example:

You are going to US to attend the funeral of your close relative and there you arrive at the airport and rush to stamp your visa for immigration.

US personnel would ask you one simple question!!

“What’s your purpose of visit – business or pleasure?”

Trapped!!! in words!! Try hard as much as you can, but you can’t escape the irony of words.
You can’t choose business, because obviously you are not going for a business trip. So left with only one option- pleasure!!

Immigration has reallocated your purpose of visit. This decisive question has made a very purposeful irony.

I can understand how your heart would feel, when caught in trap of words. Heart is sad because of the pain you going through on the behalf of your relative, but poor heart, it has to manage with the irony.

This purposeful irony cannot console the heart; instead, it creates an expression of guilt as it makes heart to purposefully utter a word –pleasure!!

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