My wise friends...
I have a niece who is around 12 yrs old, once she came to visit me in delhi. At that time i was doing my masters...i remember, once i was loaded with some assignment..and i instead of working on it in the morning..pushed it evening and so sat working on it pretty late....she came and said the next day, akka if u had done it earlier, you did not had to sit so late and maybe we both could have gone out...
I felt at that instance, yep you are right....new generations are lot more systematic/intelligent :) Kids sometimes teach us so much.
One my way to back from office, i meet a girl occasionally, who asks me to join her game....when i am with her...life seems so much fun....and all my troubles seem so small/stupid. When i am not in a mood to play because of something that happenned in office, she asks me what happenned, when i tell her at a high level what happenned...she will just say...tell him u r katti and will not talk to him because he said x...
I sometimes feel, her advices make perfect sense :)
The child in me, gets thrilled when i do something not expected for adults, like leaving early from office to see a movie, getting off on my way back to a shopping area, and just roam for a while...,not working sometimes in the office and telling the boss directly, i don't want to work today, and when i get to hear a approval nod from the boss... as if some adult has allowed a kid to go play and study later....starting to sing not caring who is hearing...
There has been not some good moments, when i act like this...recently i said to my team, i hate planning...and i see my PM looking at me with surprise...as though thinking, i thought she is the most experienced among the lot here, a seasoned senior associate, she seems so immature.
We all have a kid within us i guess, who wants us to return to childhood once in a while... break free from this world of logic/responsibility for a while and return to simplicity, innocence, small joys...where the rules are very simple....2+2 is always 4, 1+3 cannot be four :)
Basically telling us, life is not that complex as u make it sound :)
4 comments:
Nice post.
Many times I have felt the same. It is wonderful being around kids, their views are so simple, good and bad clearly defined, love and hate clearly defined.
I would love to go back to being a kid. ;--))
Can relate to it too. Sometimes I can do it just to irritate people who feel they are too grown ups :-). Being around kids is most fun ... I think we have the most real experience of life when we are with them :-).
Just like others this is another 'dil se' post from Madhu. Nicely put together. I really liked the phrase, 'as if some adult has allowed a kid to go play and study later'. I have been visualizing situations putting my colleagues and ex colleagues in the kid and the boss position. Had fun trying some :)
I guess everyone has a child hidden within who never grows up and most of us need a certain stimulus like an occasion or company to bring it out and few make it a way of life. I have a friend who still buys toy guns to play with and is always on a prowl looking for some way of playing a prank on someone. Another one who needs absolutely no reason to giggle! Company of such individuals is pure bliss.
Nicely written. We all have a child within us which wants to be freed once in a while and I think we should let it free and enjoy ourselves. That way we come closer to who we are. Do pamper yourself with activities you love. Let the child in you get thrilled and remember there are no rules what should be expected of adults. Adults themselves don't know what they want... :)
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