As I was travelling in a bus, a woman sat next to me with her cute little sweet baby. The baby had chubby cheeks, tiny pink lips and its innocent beaming eyes simply mesmerized me!!! When I saw its tiny lips curve to smile at me, I simply felt my age shrink to that of the baby. I experienced an overwhelming joy in me.
In the jerk of the bus, suddenly the baby started to cry and my heart started to melt like wax as I saw the tears roll down the pink chubby cheeks. Then I observed the mother making sounds equivalent to that of the baby thinking that, it was the language the baby could understand. The baby then paused to hear the various sounds her mother produced. Whenever she liked a sound, she acknowledged it with a tiny curve and when she didn’t like the sound, she continued with her wail. Once the tiny tot made her mom completely tired, she started to take notice of other people around her. The tiny hands now caught hold of the sari of a woman who was standing next to her. When the women turned around to glance thinking who was the culprit, the little one gave one of her naughty smile and now the woman started to talk the baby language. I could now see beaming joy in the eyes of the woman.
As I got down from the bus and walked through my street, I saw a small boy aged 4 with a bat nearly to his height, shouting to a 30 year old child (presume his dad) to throw the ball. The big child came running forward with a weightless plastic ball and threw with all his force. On seeing the ball surpass him, the 4 year old boy threw the bat down and went running to catch the ball. Of course the 30 year old followed. Later a small discussion took place and the 30 year old child was now with the bat. Guess Mr. 4 year had probably blamed him that he didn’t know to throw the ball and that a coaching was required. Now this super hero came running and threw the ball with all his might and the ball hit the centre of the bat and flew high in the air. At the sight of it, both of them jumped with immense joy.
As I was enjoying the game, I realized how happy people are when they become children. Each of us have our own hidden child inside us no matter how much our age adds to. Every minute this child peeps out, we experience a seamless joy in our heart that becomes, as light as feather. We were all so peaceful at heart when we were a child. But where has the peace gone now??? Then I thought for a moment about that small piece of Child’s heart that gave peace. An innocent heart that bore no worries or sorrow or ego or jealousy or hatred, a heart that didn’t know to hide anything, a true smile always in the lips with the curiosity to learn more and more and most important of all a heart with no expectations or fear. As a child we never knew to blame about whatever happened to us. We never remembered anything bad that happened to us and did not keep worrying about it. We lived in the present and cherished every moment. Even when we fell down, we got up and kept trying persistently at what we wanted to achieve. Failure had never affected us. We had hope and faith in our parents & elders and always paid attention to their words. As a child we had a heart to accept anything and everything that happened to us and forgave anyone easily. We had never accumulated any bad experience that made us worry. We never hesitated to share our emotions truly to anybody we met. It is that beautiful mind and transparent heart that gave us immense peace during those days. When we were Children, we were so effortlessly peaceful but now it will definitely take a lot of effort in re-creating that small piece of Child’s heart in us that can give us immense peace. However one short-cut to become a Child at heart is “Leave your Ego”….
In the jerk of the bus, suddenly the baby started to cry and my heart started to melt like wax as I saw the tears roll down the pink chubby cheeks. Then I observed the mother making sounds equivalent to that of the baby thinking that, it was the language the baby could understand. The baby then paused to hear the various sounds her mother produced. Whenever she liked a sound, she acknowledged it with a tiny curve and when she didn’t like the sound, she continued with her wail. Once the tiny tot made her mom completely tired, she started to take notice of other people around her. The tiny hands now caught hold of the sari of a woman who was standing next to her. When the women turned around to glance thinking who was the culprit, the little one gave one of her naughty smile and now the woman started to talk the baby language. I could now see beaming joy in the eyes of the woman.
As I got down from the bus and walked through my street, I saw a small boy aged 4 with a bat nearly to his height, shouting to a 30 year old child (presume his dad) to throw the ball. The big child came running forward with a weightless plastic ball and threw with all his force. On seeing the ball surpass him, the 4 year old boy threw the bat down and went running to catch the ball. Of course the 30 year old followed. Later a small discussion took place and the 30 year old child was now with the bat. Guess Mr. 4 year had probably blamed him that he didn’t know to throw the ball and that a coaching was required. Now this super hero came running and threw the ball with all his might and the ball hit the centre of the bat and flew high in the air. At the sight of it, both of them jumped with immense joy.
As I was enjoying the game, I realized how happy people are when they become children. Each of us have our own hidden child inside us no matter how much our age adds to. Every minute this child peeps out, we experience a seamless joy in our heart that becomes, as light as feather. We were all so peaceful at heart when we were a child. But where has the peace gone now??? Then I thought for a moment about that small piece of Child’s heart that gave peace. An innocent heart that bore no worries or sorrow or ego or jealousy or hatred, a heart that didn’t know to hide anything, a true smile always in the lips with the curiosity to learn more and more and most important of all a heart with no expectations or fear. As a child we never knew to blame about whatever happened to us. We never remembered anything bad that happened to us and did not keep worrying about it. We lived in the present and cherished every moment. Even when we fell down, we got up and kept trying persistently at what we wanted to achieve. Failure had never affected us. We had hope and faith in our parents & elders and always paid attention to their words. As a child we had a heart to accept anything and everything that happened to us and forgave anyone easily. We had never accumulated any bad experience that made us worry. We never hesitated to share our emotions truly to anybody we met. It is that beautiful mind and transparent heart that gave us immense peace during those days. When we were Children, we were so effortlessly peaceful but now it will definitely take a lot of effort in re-creating that small piece of Child’s heart in us that can give us immense peace. However one short-cut to become a Child at heart is “Leave your Ego”….
