My Children are being Children

02.07.2010

I attended the MMA Management Excellence Awards function. I met Mr. V Ramamoorthy, Former IAS officer. He is pretty aged now. Although he is bent double and his voice is a bit quivering, his intellect is still pure and his clarity of thought is unaffected. An example of the triumph of the spirit over flesh.

He asked me what my children are doing. After telling him which class they were in at school, I said, 'Sir, my children are being children, which is what I want them to do now. After all this is the only time in their life when they would ever be children.' He really connected with this thought and laughed heartily with me.