NOTE TO MY CHILD!
Dear Darling,
As you are soon going to be half way through your first ton,
now is when we can talk heart to heart.
As a first time mom, I go through roller coaster of emotions
as to how you would accept me as a parent, whether I will be good enough or
make enough time for you!
You have given me the best days of my life and I treasure
our heart to heart conversations!
Here are some things that I would like to tell you:
1.
Live
light, live full: Life is not a competition, it is a journey. There are
people on that journey with you. Throughout your life, people will keep
changing and the change will make the journey lovely and interesting.
2.
Prioritise
yourself: Enjoy with yourself. Love thinking quietly, sitting and day
dreaming, plan your time with yourself, because you are going to be the
constant one in your journey and its important to talk to your inner one!
3.
Dont get
too caught up in negativities: Dont
have negative comparisons with anyone. Enjoy your own thing, try to give your
best in what you do...be it dancing, singing, or writing an exam! Forget about
failures...when you do your best you don’t fail with yourself. Negativities may
pull you down, but make them your step up that escalator! The steps may come
and go but you always move up an escalator! Make it an easy ride for yourself!
4.
Don’t
expect a smooth ride: We are on a long, bumpy road. The destination isn’t
known and so is not important. The road is surrounded by green trees and lovely
flowers. Instead of getting affected by the bumps, try to enjoy the greens that
is there all along. There WILL be Problems! I repeat, There WILL be problems,
but working around them is the fun...much like solving a puzzle or a lego! You
will realise later like I do now, that the problem solving teaches a lot.. so
take it like a tough chapter in a book!
5.
Read a wonderful line today: Be a
good human being: there is a huge opportunity in this area and with very
little competition. Me and your father, wouldn’t really care if you are a good
engineer, doctor, artist or singer! Just define for yourself what a good human
being would be...and try to inculcate the values you want! You don’t have to be
all white or all black...a grey good human being is just as fine!
Love
Ma
