To a Scholar
It was a cold January in 2007. In Hong Kong. We stood outside Canadian International School of Hong Kong, with a 2 year 4 months old Arunav wailing as he did not want to leave his parents and accompany a stranger into the "interview room" for children to be admitted to pre-Kindergarten. As I had written in the post of Jan 2008, I was ashamed at my thoughts and behaviour as a parent that cold day with bright sunshine. One of the many parental guilts that never leave you.
That baby grew despite our parenting lapses. The Universe's penchant for symmetry makes it almost exactly 17 years from that day, yesterday.
It was a much colder day in Cambridge on Jan 16 2024. The sun shone equally brightly with a deep blue sky. Arunav walked into the hallway of Trinity Chapel and was admitted as a Scholar of Trinity College, after his first year there. It was a surreal moment. Too many memories, too many thoughts, too many reflections crowding their way into the moment for me to be fully there, to fully absorb it.
I kept drifting on and off from the moment to the momentousness of the moment.
We sat there with many other proud parents and grand parents. What contribution was truly ours to have deserved that seat? I was not too sure. I just felt lucky as a lottery winner might. We were gifted with a child who hopefully one day can make an exceptional difference to this world, who will live for more than oneself and do greater good. Good to mankind.
May his work benefit people from who he hopes to receive nothing in return.
This blog was started with motherhood. I am the one who has learnt more than I have taught.
posted by Tuya @ 00:40
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