And just like that, I had a moment..a change in perspective
of this whole wide world that I am looking at since the day I was born.
Each thing that I was taught seemed to be a view of someone else. It
seemed no one taught me to look the other way! You know.. it was not
about asking questions, it was about encouraging to think different!
So, what had happened?
Samvrith, Appu and Abhishek (their 9 year old friend) had just played a
game of cricket and came home hungry. They were eating dosa and talking
something random, while I watched them and kept biting pieces of dosa
from each one of them. Samvrith started it by telling me.. "You know
what, the other day I saw air!" .. he continued, "I opened the fridge
and there was air! Really, go open the freezer, and you can see the air
coming out!"
I
tried to be an adult, and told him how it was not air, and if that was
the case, even smoke can be seen and that could be called air.. but air
is something that you can't see.
Appu, as usual asked the curious innocent question, that all of us would have asked at some point of time in our childhood.
" Why can't we see air?"
Its not something that I haven't thought of. I am sure, my teacher had
given an answer to that question.. but I kept thinking. I kept thinking,
how could I explain it to him?
While
I was still pondering, Abhishek, without even giving a moment's thought
asked a question to Appu.. this were his exact words.
"Arrey yaar, agar tu air ko dekh sakta, toh tu baaki sab kaise dekhta??"
That! That now is what is perspective, which
none of our teachers would have ever made us think! I mean, if air was
seen, we couldn't have seen anything around us! That's such a huge
thought... all our school days we constantly felt (atleast i was made to
feel) we cant see air.. like i was missing out on something just
because I cant see it.. like that was something big.
No one ever told, we could see so many things because of air!
Ping!
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