Gargi's Soulful Musings

After a sunny, tiresome and liberating morning run, I stopped by a tender coconut shop to quench my thirst. There was a vehicle parked lethargically right in the turning corner of a main road. To my best efforts, my scooty turned around and stopped in a corner. Meanwhile, one uncle was staring at me without a blink of eye. I completely ignored him, thinking it might be because of my running attire and my sweaty face.  After a while, tired of long time staring and lack of any acknowledgement from my end, that grumpy uncle started policing me by asking why my scooty had carelessly hit his dear, pathetically parked vehicle. I was completely taken aback! If at all, I had hit his vehicle, at the least I would have become aware of the slightest of the vibration of that so-called hitting of 2 vehicles. Simple law of physics, isn't it! I retorted him defending my dear scooty and that grumpy uncle replied back saying my scooty had slightly frictioned with the helmet hung on his vehicle. To ...

I have often heard of kids getting influenced by paying keen attention to the actions and words of the people around.  Witnessing it personally, I landed with so many other profound thoughts.  We (myself, a 4 year old kid, her 10 year old elder sister and their parents) were in a kids play area room where few toys were messily spread across the room.  While that kutty (little one) was playing happily along with her sister around the mess, her dad was expressing his genuine concern on how few kids are unaware of the self-discipline to keep the toys back to its original place and how parents should impart this important self-discipline to their kids. After a while, when we were about to leave, while it appeared as if that naughty kutty was still playing with the toys, to my utter delight and surprise, that little one was actually collecting all the toys from the messy ground to keep them back to it's original place AND in perfect order!    That little wonder had a...