Reminiscence is something that we all revel in. Be it with school friends, college friends, office colleagues, friends, relatives, and so on. One phase that we never reminisce is our childhood – but someone else reminisces that phase for us, and typically that tends to be the person who reared you or was a part of your innocence / adolescence days.
Just the other day two children were fighting over once chocolate – when there was a full packet on the side, but both were adamant that they wanted just that piece of chocolate. In the struggle the ensued, one child got the better of the other and claimed possession of the prized chocolate, and immediately commotion followed, because the other child (loser) cried so loudly that people around gathered.
They asked the crying child what the problem was and lo the child blurted out and immediately the solution found – the other child was reprimanded and this child given that prized chocolate. Now the child was smiling in glee and the other one was morose. This actually made me wonder as to who is the winner or loser?
I think of so many instances, where as an outsider, I would want to criticise the parent for not letting the children face reality and making them happy, just because one is seeking momentary peace and not get into doing anything major.
This is akin to the popular Wrestling shows on Television, wherein one person proves his ability and is declared as the winner, and the loser immediately retorts in the form of protests, technical complaints, seeking a rematch or asking to reverse the result. That childhood instinct in us never dies, for we want to prove that we won.
Maybe in childhood it was a parent or an elder who anointed you to cosmetic position of making you feel as a Winner. We are continually seeking someone like that all across our career who can make us feel as winner.
Are we responsible for rearing Winners and create a world of illusion right from childhood, and then panic when the same child as an adult has problems coping up with reality.
Guess, the proverb As we sow, so your reap actually goes live in our lives!
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