Bringing up children, is bringing up ourselves!

Disclaimer:

1. Its an attempt to write about children and their importance. At the current stage of parenting I realize that "Bringing up Children is actually bringing up ourselves".

2. Ability not to take them for granted and not to thrust our thoughts into their minds, not to kill their inquisitiveness, downloading right sense of values (not ours), ensuring that they think and decide things for themselves, not to blind them with the luxury of material life and making them see reality once in a while are all challenges which all of us face. We either recognize this or live without recognition.

3. I have borrowed the lines from Kahlil Gibran "That children may be through us but not from us" is a great phrase with very deep meaning. Think about it and we can discuss this over a drink.

4. A couple of lines in this blog can be decoded only with deep "bio-math" knowledge only ;), which isn't common. Can be added to the discussion topic above :)

Is life all about moving from
One stage of dependency to another?
Is life all about moving from
One stage of infirmity to another?
Its total dependence till 20
Its mutual dependence till 60 else,
Its forceful dependence till 60 and
Its total dependence post 60
Its physical infirmity till 20
Its mental infirmity till 60 and
Its psycho-somatic infirmity post 60
Looks life is all about moving from
One stage of dependency to another
One stage of infirmity to another

Name and fame shall always wane
Shame and blame unlimitedly came
Dame and bane are one and the same
Not realizing this you are just insane!
In a life that’s so mundane!
Begetting children are the only acts of sane!
Yes, begetting children are the only acts of sane!

When 16 met 16
When 3 met one
When "testosteronestrogen" evolved
When “Heman” said hai to hymen
Hymen gave way to semen
Though the success is for just one in a billion
Yet the world now is with more than 6 billion

As a produce of our longing and craving called life
As a produce of our insatiable amorous thirst called love
As a symbol of our social pact called marriage
As an insurance of our future infirmity called old age

As an excuse to amass wealth called inheritance
As an expression of the most productive fluid called semen
Sometimes as a proof of product failure called condom

Sometimes as an inadvertant negligence from madam

As a passport to her next stage in life called womanhood
As a proof his virility and his ability to defy gravity
As a proof of her feminity, and an outcome as sure as serendipity
Children bring along the nectar of life and a concept called hope

But beware,
Just 40 minutes of pleasure can

Demand 40 weeks of commitment!

But just 40 weeks of sacrifice we can’t
Demand 40 years of commitment!
We may be the producer yet
We are not their creator
They may come through us yet
They are not from us
We may give them life yet
We don’t own their lives
We may share our wisdom yet
We can’t force our values
We ought to protect their bodies yet
We can’t claim their souls!
We may give them shelter nothing more than
A motel in a highway called life that
Trades in love and not in cash

Realize
Bringing hope to a life so barren
Laughing away anxieties that overran
A body so active
A mind so inquisitive
An attitude that’s adaptive
A smile so addictive
Smiling and Crying, Crying and teasing
Crawling and walking, walking and falling,
Growing and learning, learning and Trying
Trying to sit up, trying to stand up
Refusing to dress up, refusing to shut up
Sometimes so difficult to put up
From finding our weakest nerve
To pressing it at the weakest moment
From testing our limits of patience
To touching the heights of disobedience
As nicer they grow up!
Wiser we end up!
As you help them come up!
They help us grow up!
Hence realize

Bringing up children is actually
Bringing up yourself!

Happy Reading!