Two scenes that I observed today morning; I am not able to express my feelings properly in words.
Scene 1:
All the windows are almost closed to create enough darkness in the day & to reduce the noise from outside. Fan is running in an optimum speed to keep the room temperature neither too high nor too low. Room is tidy & clean with regular cleaning up and proper maintenance. TV is running on mute. People in the house are speaking in husky voice. A 4 months old kid is sleeping in that room, possibly peacefully.
Scene 2:
National highway. 4 lanes road. Constant traffic of roaring heavy vehicles speeding anywhere from 80 kmph to 120 kmph. Regular honking noise from the vehicles overtaking eachother. Series of trees grown in the middle of the road are acting as road separator. On the branch of one of those trees a hanging cradle. A few months old kid is sleeping in that cradle. Mom is out there among those road workers.
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Imaginary Scene 3
After 25 years, both the children meet. How will that be? Might be like 'Anbe Sivam' Kamal and Madhavan....:-)
Both would have their own strengths & weaknesses...Strength of the former would be the weakness of the later..and vice versa...
Good one Seeni,
Both kids would have got experienced to their respective environments.Even the kid who was sleeping amidst the honking noise of vehicles would feel thats his 'lullaby'.He won't get disturbed by it....because he is used to it everyday!
But for the first kid maybe even a mobile ring would disturb his sleep(correcta?):-)
What Anuradha has said is right...Even I thought of telling about Immunity, Tolerance..what ever...
I can totally relate to Scene 1. In fact add to that soothing music playing in the back ground, blanket ban on pressure cooker, a muffled mixie by moving it to washer room. Can you see why I can relate to scene 1 ? :-))
@ Sarang
Could be possible. who knows. That's weird game of life.
@ Ramesh & Anu
I agree with you folks. We are protecting our son too much (scene 1 is my kid)
@ Siva
You & I are in the same page. Is it over protection? Will our sons not be street-smart?!
Seeni..it is not over protection. We have all been brought up in the same way and we should do the same to our kids. It's the fate of the kid in scene 2 and we cannot change. As Anuradha and others told, the kid in scene 2 is accumosted to it.
@ Kicha - Agreed.
I don't think it is over protection. There is a selfish reason to do it. If he is going to wake up by some disturbance he is going to remain cranky for sometime which will spoil his mood as well as our time.
The other reason - he is not able to adjust to certain things like the pressure cooker sound. (I really don't know why). So we just avoid it till he is able to adjust to it. I even tried to take him into the kitchen and show him what was the sound about when he was awake. The experiment failed when he got more upset seeing it. Felt really bad :-(
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