SHAPING-UP A TREE


















Little children are so pure, so beautiful. These days, I spend a lot of my time with these innocent angels… Yes, to teach them some things, which will help them grow up as fine individuals in life. The world calls such things as ‘Personality Development’. Whatever they call it, it is about growing up in life with a strong mind and a beautiful heart. Yes, a healthy body, as well. 


From my own experience of growing up over all my fifty-four years in this world, I have been whispering in those lovely hearts two things in this regard:


“Honey, don’t complain too much.”… “Learn to forget and forgive quickly.”


In fact, little children have the shortest memory: One moment they fight like worst enemies; the next moment they cozy-up like the best pals! That’s really so refreshing about children. They don’t bear grudges; they don’t conspire against others… They don’t like poison in their hearts… In fact, they do not know what poison is!


Bearing grudges and poison in their hearts and plotting against their opponents, the children learn gradually, as they grow up, from elders. From us. And, how did we learn such things – Was it not in the same manner, from our own elders?


Children understand value-lessons so perfectly. For a teacher, when the little faces glow up with this simple wisdom, it is such a satisfying experience; it is so blissful…


The greater teachers, however, are always there at home… The parents, the grand parents, the uncles and aunts… the ones who teach our children by live examples. And, we know how powerful and superior examples are compared to precept!


So, these little angels come to me to carry home something fine about living. I said to ‘carry home’!


Carry home my precept… Where live examples are all ready to learn for the little hearts…




Like my precept, the examples have to be 

in the same spirit… even stronger and finer…
 


“Honey, don’t complain too much… Please learn to forget and forgive quickly.”


Else, I wonder - How do personalities develop?


Every tree was a sapling once… and, as the old saying goes: 


“A tree can be shaped when it is just a sapling.”




GERALD D’CUNHA


Pic.: Abhishek Iyer

Comments

Anonymous said…
Excellent post! Punit
April 27, 2013 at 3:36 PM
Nutan Singh said…
Lead by example!!!!! Nutan
April 27, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Fathima said…
Good post, very inspiring! Fathima
April 27, 2013 at 7:51 PM
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