“You will be a wonderful father to your kids”
The person who said it? My Mom… And as far as compliments go, it couldn't get better…
My nieces were with me at that time and perhaps Mom was glad enough to notice that she and my sister (the kids’ mom) had to spend little or no time looking after them while shopping or cooking or talking or eating or keeping them busy.
They love being with and around A n U Mama so much that the elder one recently told Mom that she liked Mom because she was my mother… And from a kid who is all of 8 years… My Mom said that the warmth in her words moved her to tears…
The story is not so different at my end too… I love kids so so much, that I always remember telling Mom that I wanted to have kids… When I said that at the age of 11, everyone laughed… At the age of 17, not everyone laughed and when I say now, they are all smiles… Perhaps because they think that it’s time for me to tie the knot… God... these people and their ideas…
Anyway, the absolute fun you can have around kids is incomparable… They trust you, you do not have to be someone around them, Love is straight and not implied, happiness and cooperation are only an ice cream or chocolate away (in a non bribing sense though ;) ) and on and on… And when you have two of them kiddos, things get more exciting… Apart from the fun and laughter you have around them, you can also sit back and enjoy the bonding between the two siblings, where they are caring about each other, yet sometimes pick fights for reasons that are so important to them… And it sets you thinking about your fights with your siblings in those days, how we have grown up to become the people we are today, how they might shape up in the days to come and a million other things…
And then there is the unmatched feeling when you have those little lips on your cheek kissing you Good Night or expressing thanks for getting them that chocolate on the high shelf… Those moments… You know that heaven does exist on Earth…
The dear girls left to see their grands and the whole family team couple of days later…
And before the warmth of their presence left me, I was there in Kerala with my Chechi’s kiddo… This chubby dearie is all of ten months old and is seeing me for the second time in her life… No recognition was expected and there were no surprises…
But in 15 mins, she was there in my arms and playing with my glasses and making sounds that her mom and grandma interpreted differently… I was sure that she was saying in her baby language that she loved me ;) Heh heh…
Another 15 minutes and she was fast asleep… Mom had the perfect reason… A n U is so wide that the kid has so much space and warmth… So no surprises for them and the baby girl continued to sleep blissfully…
And like I say always… Kids are the only reason we all have hope in tomorrow… Their innocence, their trust, their love, their belief, their recognition, their frankness… It’s all so simple for them… Sadly for them to recognise that innocence, they will need to interact with kids when they are our age… And then will sit back and think or write something like this lamenting on innocence lost and a world in ruin…
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