WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THIS CHILD ?

Yesterday, I saw a child looking at a mirror with his eyes closed; his mother wondered what actually her five year old son intention was, so she asked.

“My son, what are you looking at the mirror with your eyes closed?” The son happily replied:

“Mom, I want to see myself, how I look when I am asleep with my eyes closed”.

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• What do you think was mom’ reply to her five old year son in the story above?

• Do you think the woman told her son that it was impossible to achieve what the kid wanted to achieve?

• Do you think the woman told the kid, what he was trying to do was stupid?

• Do you think the kid would ask the woman to show him how he could see himself while his eyes closed?

The story above and the questions that followed depict our real life situations. Let me break it down what I actually want to say here:

Firstly: Good intention/goals should be matched with appropriate efforts to make our life meaningful and successful. You see in the story the kid had very good intention to find out how he looks when he is asleep, but poor efforts make him look stupid. 

Sometimes we are like that. For instance, you might have joined a learning program so that you can advance your academic qualification and your skills, but you know you really don’t have time to attend to class, you don’t have time to study thoroughly – how will you achieve what you want?

Secondly, your close people like friends and partners may not criticize you on what seems obvious that is a good intention backed with poor efforts and strategy. These people may think you will keep everything under control, or they may fear to ‘destroy’ their relationship with you. 

Very rare cases, you may find someone to question you on what seems to be a wrong approach to achieving what you want. When you get this opportunity, be open , you may get help like the kid in this story – probably if he asks his mom how he can see himself, may be his mom will take a camera and take a photo of him sleeping.

Thirdly, sometimes we are too ambitious, we have our goals and we design strategies to reach our goals. We allow ourselves to be carried away with our ego and forget to think about other alternatives.

The kid in the story, had many options to see himself, but on his mind the only best option was to use a mirror.

Sometimes the environment we are in and the people we surround ourselves with dictate solutions to our problems without clearly finding other suitable alternatives. 

May be the kid in the story decided to use mirror after seeing people around him using mirror to see themselves how they look in their new outfits, etc. So, he wondered what about him seeing himself in his sleeping pose!