Dear Girl,
I know I've fallen really behind in posting on my blog! It has been around 6 months since I last posted. But, as the name of the blog suggests "The Thought Which Got Caught", I can undauntedly and shamelessly say that lately (since a long time) haven't been thinking much! But it was just today evening that a thought personified itself to me.
When I was just a child of about 5 years, my mumma first asked me what I wanted to become once I grew up. And to this I spontaneously replied that I wanted to be a pilot. This may have occurred because I live nearby The National Defence Academy of India, where the airplanes and jets and MiGs keep hovering over relentlessly! Later in life, only two years after, my mumma again asked me the above question and my reply was an astronaut. This was after I heard about the news of Kalpana Chawla's success at NASA and her mission to space on the spaceship Columbia. And again I would like to shamelessly mention, that my dreams and aspirations have changed meagerly to tremendously over all these years.
Why do parents have to ask the question "What will you become when you grow up?" so frequently to their kids? Why confuse them with their priorities in their life to such an extent that by the time the child grows up, he/she has lost the sense of being a good human, first! Not once did I ever tell my mumma that I wanted to become a good human being first! Not once! Though if I would have told her, she would have been a prouder mother!
See, there is an old saying that goes, "Be kind and kindness will come around!". Along the years of the maturation stage, the child often forgets his priorities. He forgets that being good and adjusting to his surroundings, are the pathways that will lead him to his success. Instead, we all, even me, resort to ways of cheating and envious wrong-doings to achieve our goals, our aims. Then along the way we might make some relations to benefit us instead of relations to make us happy. We make relations according to the altitude of a person instead of his attitude. The values and attributes don't occupy an important place, once we have shifted our priorities to being a good engineer, doctor, chef or whatever it may be!
Try to ask this question to yourself today, right now, "Who am I gonna be today?"
You can be the daughter whose laughter and fun keeps an entire house filled to the brim; you can be a sister who provides the safest place to her brother who is so macho that he won't cry anywhere but behind closed doors in your arms; you can be a girl who just sweeps off the ground beneath her boyfriend's feet; you can be a mother who has raised up her teenage children so well that they prefer to stay home most nights than go out with their friends!
But most of all, you are the woman, who when gets out of her bed in the morning makes the devil say, " Oh no! She's up!"
I know I've fallen really behind in posting on my blog! It has been around 6 months since I last posted. But, as the name of the blog suggests "The Thought Which Got Caught", I can undauntedly and shamelessly say that lately (since a long time) haven't been thinking much! But it was just today evening that a thought personified itself to me.
When I was just a child of about 5 years, my mumma first asked me what I wanted to become once I grew up. And to this I spontaneously replied that I wanted to be a pilot. This may have occurred because I live nearby The National Defence Academy of India, where the airplanes and jets and MiGs keep hovering over relentlessly! Later in life, only two years after, my mumma again asked me the above question and my reply was an astronaut. This was after I heard about the news of Kalpana Chawla's success at NASA and her mission to space on the spaceship Columbia. And again I would like to shamelessly mention, that my dreams and aspirations have changed meagerly to tremendously over all these years.Why do parents have to ask the question "What will you become when you grow up?" so frequently to their kids? Why confuse them with their priorities in their life to such an extent that by the time the child grows up, he/she has lost the sense of being a good human, first! Not once did I ever tell my mumma that I wanted to become a good human being first! Not once! Though if I would have told her, she would have been a prouder mother!
See, there is an old saying that goes, "Be kind and kindness will come around!". Along the years of the maturation stage, the child often forgets his priorities. He forgets that being good and adjusting to his surroundings, are the pathways that will lead him to his success. Instead, we all, even me, resort to ways of cheating and envious wrong-doings to achieve our goals, our aims. Then along the way we might make some relations to benefit us instead of relations to make us happy. We make relations according to the altitude of a person instead of his attitude. The values and attributes don't occupy an important place, once we have shifted our priorities to being a good engineer, doctor, chef or whatever it may be!
Try to ask this question to yourself today, right now, "Who am I gonna be today?"
But most of all, you are the woman, who when gets out of her bed in the morning makes the devil say, " Oh no! She's up!"
