No Seven Wonders in the Eyes of a Child - Only Seven Zillion

Krishna Nee begane Baaro.As my twinkling toes danced, flipping their tiny hands and waists, my eyes gleamed with brightness and joy.

As I walked through the recollections of memories spent during choreographing a dance show of young 3 year olds on the occasion of Janmashtami, I found myself incessantly reflecting on the innocence of children. How fortunate are we to live in a world and society that value the period of childhood? It’s rather astonishing that as kids we unendingly look forward to the moment when we become adults and can do anything we want, but then once we grow and become burdened with innumerable responsibilities, we pensively revive those untroubled childhood days! undoubtedly we miss many moments from those carefree days of our lives, as we make the evolution to maturity; by exploring how kids view the world, we can definitely learn (or relearn) few important lessons to set up in our own lives.

For a kid, the term ‘routine’ is a complete abhorrence. Anything and everything – even the most run of the mill items have to be scrutinized, laid a hand on, and touched. Regular activities like a dog barking or the UPS guy making his deliveries of the day through the mosquito that refuses go out of the living room, frequently have kids are found in mouth wide open conjecture. And yet as less as 30-35 years later, as mature grownups, this invariable perplexed curiosity and exploration of kids now and then exasperates us since we have ‘much more urgently important tasks to complete after all! We have the opportunity of residing on such a gorgeous planet, and one way of actually valuing that is viewing it via the vision of some young one who are exploring and finding out everything for the very first time in their lives.

Whenever I observe kids at play from my window, I can't help being in awe of their enthusiasm and virtuousness. There are a zillion things one could learn from a child. I have learnt many important lessons too - I have learnt that nothing you do for kids is ever washed out. They behave as if they don’t pay heed to us, hanging, avoiding our eyes, and they hardly ever would say ‘thanks’ without being prompted by their parents, but whatever we do for them is never goes down the drain. I have learnt many other things too from them, how much tolerance and the level of my fortitude I have, for example. Kids do not know what psychology is all about and they hate sociology. Yet, they have faith in God, their folks, their guardian angels, fiends, witches on the broomsticks, elves, reason, intelligibility, punctuation, and other such archaic bits and pieces. If you tell them anything which they find uninteresting, they yawn candidly. What kids look forward to from, we adults is not to be 'understood', but only to be ‘loved’. Sometimes I get a feeling that they tell me innocently through their eyes– “Hey, as you pave your path through this frenzied world of ours, leave behind a few minutes every day. At the conclusion of the year, you'll have a couple of days stocked up for you to enjoy.”

Yes, sure it was a continuous struggle to make my young twinkling toes dance, and I am happy that now they have turned me into a time management magician but they are the ones who educate me the most priceless lessons in life. They are the finest teachers, the ideal gurus! I am looking ahead to many more years of learning from them — I have got plenty to sop up.

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