When I was getting some groceries at a local convenience store
Kid1 - "Mom....Mom....Look at this .... oooo...this is cool...Mom can you listen to me? Can we buy this?" running away to find his mom....who is buying a bottle of Chardonnay.
Mom - "What is it Charlie??...I am not buying you anymore cookies"
Kid1 - No mom...it is not cookies...something way more cool...It's right there I'll show you
Mom - OK honey...we're getting late...we need go" And she drags the poor lil 5 yr old kid out.
When I was getting into the elevator at work with a family who had come for testing
Kid2 - "Marmie this elevator does not have a name....why doesn't this have a name???"
Mom - "Why baby?? Does everything need to have a name??" And she smiles...:)"
Kid2 - "Yes everything has a name - Just like me" and he looks at me for approval...I smile at him too nodding in approval.
Kid2 - "We'll name this elevator Barney" All of us smile at that Happy Kid after his naming ceremony :)
When I was scanning a Pre-schooler kid in the MRI scanner
We were having a bit of an issue getting this kid into the scanner...He was just 3 years old and was diagnosed to be ADHD....Sweet Kid....very well behaved....We were best friends and playing until he got into the scanner...Everyone around him told him not to move in the scanner and promised him lots of chocolates in return....For about 7 minutes...he was inside the scanner...did not move even a bit (Which was almost like a world record for us considering this kid's age....but was silently crying without moving his head. Just because we asked him not to move. It was sooooooo cute...I could not express it in feelings.
Seeing these kids almost on an everyday basis made me think about myself....How I was and what growing up has really done to me...taken away that innocence...and that God is still waning inside of me...Wish I could bring him back even if it means undoing all I have done in the past two decades...but such is the power of time...you're grown up even before you realize...Growing up happens in hearbeat....Listen and feel every single minute of your growth...It is never too late.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Growing Up....happens in a Heartbeat
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Undoing...if only we had that option!!!
Hey nice to see new posts! :)
Example 1, wherein the mom didn't want to pay heed to the child is an example of neglect and emotional suppression. The other examples are really cute :).
I agree that retaining the lively and optimistic spirit of children will do us people a world of good!
Bala - The fact that we do not have the option makes us think of the possibility of having it.
Neeraja - Yeah.....Sometimes when I see cases like this I wonder why they even have kids if they don't have time to spare for them. And yes...they're really cute...I can totally get used to seeing them everyday :)
As I read this post and sat few mins thinking, I thought of my grandpa and how he turned into a kid when spending time with us as a kid. Then as I grew up he still seemed like a little kid to me, he was 90 and everything about him was like a baby. He would laugh at silly things, forgot fights in matter of mins, had lost all his teeth and hair and his skin had turned baby soft. Wonder if we turn in to kids again :), until then lets keep the kid in us alive, yeah?
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