Note: I wrote this sometime in 2013 and found this piece among other unpublished drafts... found this narrative still relevant and releasing.. hope it strikes a chord!
DREAM, DREAM BIG!!!
When many 'Gurus' told me this, it didn't strike a chord with me as well as it did when little Jyotsna (my sister's daughter), a four year old, taught me the same message!
Few words about Jyotsna. She doesn't like being questioned a lot. Just simple plain questions drives her away to do something interesting in her life (bullying her little brother at hand) than talking to me. There were many instances in the past where my 'Coaching' approach boomeranged with her!
I was on a video chat with my sister and there comes this bubbly girl with two currency notes (ten and two rupee notes). Here is a simplified transcript of our conversation that followed:
BN: Hey! Jyotsy, I see that you have some rupee notes, how did you get them?
Jyotsna: (Glee in her voice) Paati (Grandmother) gave me for being a good girl.
BN: How much money is that?
Jyotsna: Ten rupees and two rupees
BN: How much is that?
Jyotsna: (by this time she is a bit skeptical on where is this conversation going, her eyes search for her little brother) Hmmm...
Now her mother also joins the conversation.
Bharathi Raghu: Tell Jyotsy, how much is 10 plus 2?
Jyotsna: twelve.
BN: Wow that's a lot of money! What are you going to do with this?
Jyotsna: I'll buy a toy for my little brother.
BN: that's good. How much more money you need to buy him a toy?
(I was thinking she might say some number like fifty or hundred, then I would say, if you are good girl you might get the remaining money in no time. "What all you'll do to be a good girl?" Would've been my next question.
Perhaps, she got a drift of where I'm going with this, she got up from her mother's lap, prepared herself to leave the place, but before going......)
Jyotsna: Two lakh rupees!!!! (off she disappeared, leaving me gaping at the screen, trying to understand what hit me)
My sister started to laugh out loud and that brought me back to senses. I was not prepared for this stroke of brilliance from a four year old.
A lesson learnt!
When many 'Gurus' told me this, it didn't strike a chord with me as well as it did when little Jyotsna (my sister's daughter), a four year old, taught me the same message!
Few words about Jyotsna. She doesn't like being questioned a lot. Just simple plain questions drives her away to do something interesting in her life (bullying her little brother at hand) than talking to me. There were many instances in the past where my 'Coaching' approach boomeranged with her!
I was on a video chat with my sister and there comes this bubbly girl with two currency notes (ten and two rupee notes). Here is a simplified transcript of our conversation that followed:
BN: Hey! Jyotsy, I see that you have some rupee notes, how did you get them?
Jyotsna: (Glee in her voice) Paati (Grandmother) gave me for being a good girl.
BN: How much money is that?
Jyotsna: Ten rupees and two rupees
BN: How much is that?
Jyotsna: (by this time she is a bit skeptical on where is this conversation going, her eyes search for her little brother) Hmmm...
Now her mother also joins the conversation.
Bharathi Raghu: Tell Jyotsy, how much is 10 plus 2?
Jyotsna: twelve.
BN: Wow that's a lot of money! What are you going to do with this?
Jyotsna: I'll buy a toy for my little brother.
BN: that's good. How much more money you need to buy him a toy?
(I was thinking she might say some number like fifty or hundred, then I would say, if you are good girl you might get the remaining money in no time. "What all you'll do to be a good girl?" Would've been my next question.
Perhaps, she got a drift of where I'm going with this, she got up from her mother's lap, prepared herself to leave the place, but before going......)
Jyotsna: Two lakh rupees!!!! (off she disappeared, leaving me gaping at the screen, trying to understand what hit me)
My sister started to laugh out loud and that brought me back to senses. I was not prepared for this stroke of brilliance from a four year old.
A lesson learnt!
