little, fanciful flights!

Last Friday DPS International School organized their annual "kinder" concert. Shizu and I rushed from our respective offices to watch Yudhi's "speech and drama" performance. I have many raves and rants (actually only rants!) for the school but I reckon this is not the real platform. There is really NO platform to have any effective discussion because the school management is really non-reactive. They never reply to any emails, telephone calls or sometimes even notes in the child's diary. Anyway, we are stuck with this school so we are more or less resigned to the way they do things - inefficiently - despite all big words in their "speeches" at events.

Back to the Kinder concert, we went to the auditorium (a really far off place as the INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL doesn't have an auditorium!) there and for the first time since Yudhi started "performing" we managed to get a seat. Yudhi's performance was scheduled second and when he came up along with the rest of the children, dressed as a black ant, whoa, it was an awesome moment. I think we procreate not because we want to help the species survive but merely to survive ourselves. I am sure there are many people who do not want to have children but for me, having a child sort of makes you complete. A man (or a woman for that matter) is born incomplete - about 50% (well, the truth is that you CAN survive alone it's the quality of survival that makes the difference). A spouse adds 25% to his/her life and finally children give him/her the last bit to make a true human being.

Children need adults to fend for them and to provide the necessities of life but we adults need children as much (at least normal, ordinary adults do). And the routine of seeing them grow up is just amazing. Every now and then you observe then and realize that they are not what they used to be…and as they grow they become more and more independent…and the “Indian” in me makes me a bit insecure. I am brought up with the notion that families stick together for a lifetime and these days the young fledglings want to fly out in the big (bad) world as soon as it is feasible for them to…so there…anyway, I am learning every day and hopefully will be able to overcome this insecurity someday. Till then, I should just sit back and enjoy them spread their wings and try little flights in every which direction they fancy.