Last evening I had few meetings to attend around dinner
time. I usually try not to work that
time of the day because it really confuses my kid. It's our play time you see.
Nevertheless, it was one of those
unavoidable days. I was deep into a conversation with colleagues from across the globe on how best
we could mitigate risks for particularly challenging services that we were
getting into. We were almost concluding, when my 16 month old aimlessly strolls in. He casually comes near my table and starts
his high decibel protest cry for me to pick him up and in the bargain obviously
disrupts the discussion.
I apologize for the ruckus and quickly
put my line on mute, lift him and hand him over to his care taker. It annoys him because he was looking forward
to hitting my laptop keypad and pulling out a few keys under the guise of
hanging out with me. He is now howling!!
The mother in me feels sad until the
brain switches back to risk mitigation mode.
The meeting wraps up soon and I dash off to the bed
room where I see my boy playing. He looks up, gives me that heart melting smile
and jumps happily into my arms, These kids are such simple beings, they have
nothing called a grudge. Minutes ago I
couldn't do something for him that made him upset and in the adult world, we
would have held on with gusto. But instead his little brain just deleted these
unnecessary events.It keeps him so happy, always cheerful and satisfied.
Its this memory pill is what we adults need to
take to be happy, carefree and sleep like a baby. I heard a friend once tell me
that she can forgive but not forget. If I reflect back sometimes even I do
that, hold onto to things, experiences and I create nothing but grudges. Being
a mom takes me back to simple basics and I dont want to forget this memory pill
to stay happy
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