Stars on Earth!

Since I teach a lot of kids, I am quite aware of the intelligent and well-thought-off tantrums which kids throw whenever they are bored. The central idea of most of this tricks are “Act so lame that the teacher understands that you are not understanding anything”. This trick will bore your teacher and he/she will leave you. No wonder why from the old ages, these small tricks, if not always, had mostly worked. Parents are also fine with it because rightfully this is the age of playfulness and every one of us were in those shoes sometime or other. Fair enough!

Kids gradually learn how to be more persistent with their efforts (remember how diligent you were when you made your first handmade card for your first platonic or would be or existential girlfriend). Kids gradually develop the sense of perspective. (Remember how much thought you did put on to when and how to ask for permission from your father for a night out at friend’s place after he returned from his office). So kids learn and they learn most of the tricks of the trade by their own.

What if, all of a sudden they close all these super-sensory windows which help them to learn?

No prize in guessing, they will stop all these subconscious learning! They only will just grow in their physicality. Mind will remain pristine, unscathed and unbridled. A stale playfulness will remain for which parents will put an extra care to care, hiding all the unsettling questions popping up in their mind every now and then. Society will put a pithy tag of being “special” which is not at all special.

I hope sometime or other every one of us has come across these “special” children who didn’t choose to be special rather forced to be by their destiny. Whence we can literally do a very little to care about may be just by encouraging their tiniest of efforts, appreciating their seraphic smile or making them feel being equally important to us as others are, I am much more concerned with the “Normals”.

Sometimes I think, “am I thankful enough to be Normal?’ “Am I making most of it, being Normal?” When was the last time I felt relaxed and contented being Normal?

Competitions, challenges, stresses are always good till the point they construct  our existential blocks else we will mostly feel being a temporal king ruling our own utopia, gulping mono-chrome liquid sitting in a colourful tesseract of solitude or you can just imagine yourself sitting in your favourite bar on any weekend!