1.A toddler learning to walk .
No matter how many times she falls down , she is never discouraged or loses the determination to try again.
2.A kid mingling with his friends.
He doesnt care about the caste . creed , religion or social status of his friend .
In fact all kids are blissfully unaware of discriminations like these until the elders point it out to them.
3.A child asking questions about every single thing around him.
We live in era where we have information at our finger tips.
But do we have inquisitiveness to know ?
4.Observe a child when she laughs , or cries.
When she laughs , you KNOW she's happy and when she cries you KNOW for sure that she's sad.
There's no question of thinking "Is she laughing because she really is happy ?"
The idea of not showing what she feels simply never occurs to the child.
5.A kid fighting with his classmate one day . And the next day , they behave as though there was no fight at all .How many adults around us have the "maturity" (what an ironic word) to give up a fight so easily ?
A child has no ego , no sense of superiority .Playing with his classmate is what matters .Not proving to him who's fault it was .
6.A child only does what she likes to do .Hence she likes whatever she does.
7.A child loves with all his heart - fully and completely.
When a child shows love , that is the most unaluterated thing on the planet.
(un -"adult" -erated)
8.Take a child near a tiger and she will probably want to play with the tiger.
Ask a kid to dance in front of a group of people , and he will probably do so without giving a damn as to what people will think about him.
Most of the fear we develop as adults is INSTILLED into us - not inborn.
9.Children always speak their heart out .
If they want something , they ask it . If they are happy , they show it . If they are angry , they dont hold back while fighting.
I wonder how and when, in the course of becoming adults , they learn to bottle up their feelings.
10.When you go speak to a child , you absolutely need not worry about what you wear , what you speak or how you behave .
The only class of non judgemental humans you can easily find are children .
11. Seen a child playing a game and her mother calling her to come and have lunch ? The child is so completely immersed in the game that , at that instant , nothing else but the game matters.
Most adults are so busy in either regretting the past or fretting about the future , that they dont even know what the present looks like .
"Being in the moment " is an attribute that comes effortlessly to children.
"Life is not child's play" , they say .
Perhaps that is why we find it so hard.
Because we dont play it fully and completely like a child playing his game ..
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There is a small kid, daughter of a maid servant name "yashaswini". She always accompanies her mother to her work. She has her own play, she takes out a small piece of cloth and imagines herself to be washing it, scrubs it, rinses it, dries it and the play goes on..while the mother keeps shouting at her daughter to do this and not to do that, cursing herself and whoever responsible for the pityful state that she has to go to someone's house and wash the clothes, the play for the kid goes on.. she niether has to sing or dance nor needs a toy!
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