The Silent Spectator

 This life is a big open stage.We are mere puppets enacting to every situation which we face.

This is a famous dialogue by Rajesh Khanna in movie" Anand"

When I was a kid,I was thrilled listening to this dialogue. 

But I realised its true meaning only after reaching adulthood. 

We all are puppets reacting to different situations differently. 

But do you know when we are enacting our parts on this huge stage.....who are the silent spectators...they are our kids.

Whichever situations however we may react....in the background are our kids who have been silently watching our every move.

When we will be sitting on the sofa watching our favorite cricket match....but we will blatantly lie on phone to someone on the other end that we are stuck in heavy traffic.

When we keep buying aimlessly and endlessly things even if we don't need it.

When we will be abusing, insulting, defaming someone for reason or no reason.

When we are cheating someone.

When we are stealing something which doesn't belong to us. 

When we talk disrespectful to our parents, spouse, friend or relatives. 

When we harm someone. 

When we break rules and protocols. 

When we disrespect our country. 

When we throw food, litter public spaces, shout or talk loudly in public.

Remember values are not instilled in anybody overnight. The right values gradually seeps into us.They are absorbed into us right since childhood. 

Kids today are Citizens tomorrow. 

So a mind of morrow will be an ideal Citizen tomorrow. 

Kids are like a sapling. What you sow, how you take care,what surrounding it grows,...all this today....decide how strong a tree it will become tomorrow. 

Gandhiji has said " Bring the change in yourself if you want to see yourself in your kid "