My new Boss and Teacher - Vasupradha
Life:
I got an opportunity to see how life begins, when we gave birth our cute little girl Vasupradha on 28th Jan 2010. It is a memory that I will have forever, not only it gave a big lessons, but also made me think how grateful I should be to nature for giving us this wonderful gift. Several thoughts in my head, big traffic jam, when screaming little Vasupradha was handed over to me in my hand, I could barely hear the nurse who was telling me “ Congratulations Father”. All I could feel and hear was that small little thing in my hands, kicking her legs against my hands as though it wanted to jump and walk right away…!! I could see the mother longing to have her in her hands. That moment - Priceless. We welcomed “Vasupradha” with joy, for sure there were tears – I am sure you can understand it was because of Joy again. We went to hospital when Obama was giving his best, through “State of the Union” speech and we are planning to officially name her on a “Super Bowl” day. I have to related to all major event in US since, her country of birth is US.
Every moment of our life, tries to teach us something, it is us, who ignore, rather I should say we have learnt to become blind, turn deaf and senseless to those teachings. I have reason to say that, “Newborn can see best at a distance of only 8 to 14 inches”. There is no way the newborn can know who is carrying her, who is approaching her. On the day two, whenever I tried to hold Vasupradha, as soon as I take her in my arms, first thing that she does is to sniff all around to know who is carrying her. I was amazed by the way she reacted to different smell, especially when she was carried by her mother…
All the wonderful things that we acquire by nature, do we tend loose by educating ourselves…? My daughter is making me ask questions. She is my new boss, she dictates when we will sleep, what we will do and when. She is my new teacher, through her I have started learning things, it’s a new journey, it has just started..!!
February 7th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Wonderful ….Pictures please
February 18th, 2010 at 6:13 am
very well said.
children are our true teachers…there is a whole world of learning waiting there for you when they enter into our lives
February 19th, 2010 at 4:48 am
I don’t know when we stop giving unconditional love & start valuing things, but we do that sometime later in life. Sometime later in life we stop learning & get the feeling we know everything. Sometime later in life we start comparing & complaining. I don’t remember when these happend to me, but yes it did happen. If I could go back in time, I’d remove that one moment when I started knowing & stopped learning. Hey congrats! You’ve been awarded this once in a lifetime award of being the student of a first-born.