A bitter-sweet experience!

After 22 years, today I visited Sri Chaitanya college in Vijayawada. Visited our classroom, which was it in intermediate second year; the EAMCET-year, to be precise.

Back then, it wasn't a pleasant experience entering the campus, hostel or even this classroom for that matter. I fought tears and tension a lot of times in that one year. At the same time, I had made beautiful friendships, some are still continuing.

Today was a different experience. For the first time on that campus, I wanted to stay back for some more time! If not rejoicing those times, I deeply reflected on those moments. I remembered my friends and lecturers. May be, this is what a bitter-sweet experience is!

Nights like this make us young!

Nights like this make us young!

#CongratulationsTeamIndia

Lies and us - ParenthoodDiaries #68

The following words were the most said by kids to us at home in the recent past - "Jhoot kyun bolta hai?" (Why are you lying?)

That made us realise that they had grown up to understand what we would say to just pacify them in the given moment and what we would say genuinely. Hence, we reduced saying things to just pacify them, rather started telling them the practical facts.

Not that the facts are accepted by them immediately; many times we have observed that they appreciate that we have said the truth, even though they take time to come to terms with it. They take offence when we say something just to calm them down or temporarily satisfy.

Kids are always more grown up than what we think they are. It's us, who need to embrace that fact and approach them as genuinely as possible once they start understanding things.