Realization Dawns!
This being my first blog about the big girl called- LIFE, I don’t know what to expect from it. Well, I seem to have drawn a simile here, we hardly know what to expect from life either. A few days ago, I watched the movie ‘Shakuntala Devi’ along with my daughter. No need to say that its simply awesome in all respects. What hit me hard was the fact that all our lives, i.e. once we become parents, we see our children as our extensions. We keep on comparing them with us, their personalities with our personalities, their lives with our lives and ironically- their future with our past and present. Its something like this conversation going on in my head,” I wasn’t good in studies in my childhood, my child better be good! I was never a lazy bum, I better not let her become a lazy bum! I was always a plump child, see how much weight I have gained now, I better not let my child put on weight!” so on and so forth. Quite often we compare our parenting style with that of our parents. D...