Void Thoughts

My dear Kanna,

One of the most important things I want you to practise in your life is to avoid the taking for granted attitude. No, I am not saying that you take things or people for granted as such. But that is one of the most dangerous and irritable attitude a human being can have. Including me almost all of us show traces of taking for granted attribute.

There is nothing that could be taken for granted. When you were growing inside me, all I prayed and wished for was a baby with all fingers and toes, all body parts undamaged, a baby with no problems mentally, emotionally, physically. I did not ask for a fair, chubby, cute baby. I did not care if you were a boy or a girl. Don’t think that I would have disappointed if you were born with only 9 fingers. No, I would have loved you the same. I hear people talking about babies who are fair or not so fair, or about babies with a lot of hair and so on. What I thought was how can I expect that my baby will be born with all body parts. Such things are taken for granted. We assume they all come intact. And we wish for what we think is important like fairness. I couldn’t think like that.

And there so many things which we take for granted on a single day. But that is wrong. Be thankful for the food and shelter. There are people who doesn’t have any of it. Where we are born, to whom we are born, all those are not chosen by us. You or I could have born to a homeless parent and our fate could have changed completely. And that’s why we should not take our parents or the circumstances which we live in for granted, if it is giving us even a tiny bit of happiness.

I hope you understand what I am talking about. Don’t just assume that everything will come the way you want. Things could change. So be grateful and do not take anything for granted.

Love

Mommy.

Linking to Day 3 of NaBloPoMo – November.