Summer vacations test on your
patience with Kids. Kids these days are
bored after doing an activity for less than 15-20 minutes on an average. Gone
are the days when you gave them a PC and they ended up spending whole day
playing games. Now they have played all the games and are bored of silly online
games. Forget about reading books as its not fashionable and playing outdoors
for lack of open spaces and heat. So on one such summer nights, I had to resort
to storytelling for my daughter and her small friend. All the popular stories,
either of the royal family descendants like Bhakt Prahlad or Dhruv, or of common
men like that honest woodcutter who lost his axe in the well, have a similar
thread. After doing hard worship and meditation, god appears and grants the
protagonist his wishes. After narrating such stories to the kids, I had a great
idea. I have planned to go to Himalaya and am planning to do heavy worship and
meditation there. I will face all hardships and ensure that god turns up and
grants me my wishes. And I am ready with my wish list along with priorities.
These days you have to be prepared. What if god turns up and then I waste my
time thinking what to ask for. Also you never know if god will grant one wish
or three. So I have prepared ten just in case. I also am prepared with
reasoning just in case like your client or boss he asks me to explain why I had
asked that type of wish or asks for further detailed reasoning.
The main philosophy of my wish
list is the universal fact that you can choose your friends but cannot choose
your family. God decides the family in which you are born. Thus I will ask god
one basic wish to chose my family and family members.
Thus my first wish is to have a mother
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