there was a little girl who did not know enough about saying no to any thing. If some body asked, will you smile, she will smile, if some body made faces, she would echo that. one day, another girl, let us call her kshama asked the little one, called by her family as shama( she was also fiery, tumultous in her temper and some times unpredictable), why do you respond in affirmative when people ask you things? shama said,” you know most people treat litle kids as robots, they know that we are not robots, but they still expect us to behave like the one. i sort of want to forgive these adults their naivette and thus just sort of oblige them!!:
Kshama was not convinced. she asked her parents about shama had told her and parent laughed loudly, and agreed that shama was very smart, if she said that.
next day, kshama asked shama, how did you figure this out. I never knew that. Shama said, you know, whenevr these folks used to see me as a toddler, they never paid attention to what i wanted, what i thought, whether i wanted silence or solitude, they thought a little girl is an object of fun, game, play and thus regardless of my moods and feelings, they wanted me to play act as they wanted. I was tired o f them but then if i did not do that, they just persisted and some times threw me in the air. i felt scared and they laughed. i decided to succumb, and give in, ah!!”
kshama was startled by this revealation. She had also gone through this but never told any one. Here was this little girl, shama who seemed to know it all. But then kshama thought, will she really learn any thing from shama when she had her baby. Even shama did not know,
what kind of adults this world produces, why donot they learn ever even such simple things?
shama has decided to start a school for parents to teach them how to deal with babies. BUt then she is too young still, is she…..
do i know really?
curiosity, concern, compassion and collaboration