The Best times are always "now" and postponement of gratification
Last Friday some hot oil burnt my hand while I was cooking. Arunav's concern on what to do and what to put and his shouting at the gas stove ("dont you ever do that again" - ah he is now a typical boy who resolves everything with aggresion) brought sweet tears in my eyes....
I am glad I chose to spend these precious moments with them and not be locked in a corporate world so far away from these lovely feelings which tug at your heart every now and then. Oh I sometimes DO miss that feeling of being in control, of power, of achievement, of the applause of over-performance - it will soon be 2 yrs since I made the conscious choice. And even today I am soo glad of my decision.
When I was a student, after every exam came the gratification of a thing well done. When I moved to corporate life, the reward was at the end of a project or end of year(when things went fairly;) . With child rearing, I feel the gratification gets further postponed - will he/she grow up to be a child you are proud of rearing? Who knows, who can tell - can we link the response we give to a child's question today to how he will respond to others? Difficult - but I think as life progresses, we become mature enough to handle the postponement of gratification.
What keeps us going are these small small moments - I would never trade these lovely moments - they are, as the ads might say "priceless".
posted by Tuya @ 10:17
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