We (Me, my wife and two kids) came back to home after the book cover launch program of my forthcoming book “Ducks Quack Eagles Soar”. Another fifteen of my friends also revealing their book cover with 10 minutes speech about their book during the occasion. We started conversing about that event after our dinner. My 10-year-old son started asking questions as usual. One of the thought-provoking questions he asked, “Dad, one of your friends launching a book and she is speaking about something called STRESS, I am not able to understand, could you please explain?”. I was on a trap. I am always finding an easy way, told my son, “Why don’t you check with your mum? I am sure, she will clarify you in a better way”. The fact was, I don’t know how to explain to my son.
My wife started giving examples to explain. See, when your teacher giving a lot of homework, how do you feel? He simply said, when I found drivel, simply I don’t do. Don’t you feel exasperated? Wife asked, why I supposed to feel aggravated, that’s her fault, it’s my son’s reply. How do you feel when your Arabic teacher asked the lessons from you when you were not ready, and you know he will shatter you? I know, he will weary me, so I will find all the ways to get an excuse, son elucidated. The session is on for a couple of minutes with numerous situational interrogations between my wife and son, finally my wife stare at me and hard-pressed my son back to me. I don’t find a seepage this time, I just swerved him another topic.
It hit me hard. We contemplate, we are the adults having all kind of problems in life which is creating a lot of stress on us. When we grow in age, ideally our happiness also should increase along with our maturity, but what happened was we are amassing a lot of pessimism and lost the clarity to realize the world as is. We are seeing it through our hoarded nonsense, and we lost our novelty. The kids never sighted anything as a problem, they are just approaching it as an event and take situational decisions instinctively. They never distinguished anything as good or bad, positive or negative events, they just look at as events, and they perform as best as they can. Whatever they are doing, they are doing with absolute involvement. That’s the reason their world is always Joyful and colorful. What we are doing at times is without any interest and involvement that leads us to stress.
Let’s start consciously focusing on removing the debris what we accrued over the period.
Let’s keep the child alive inside on us. I hope that’s the way to freedom!
