This is your uncle and this is your aunt
here are the cousins you would want
Grandmas and Grandpas that you can go to
Sisters and Brothers for you to pursue
I teach them all to my son
making sure nothing is forgotten
in the new generation where,
the words "we", "us","our" have become rare
as they are all replaced by "Wii" - beware!
It seems easy, its instinctive - the teaching
yet - what a perplexity this holds
something heavy as it unfolds
that I see, me and my kids - both learning
I am teaching them attachments
while I am learning - detachments
-Padma
Thought for the day : Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
~W.B. Yeats
Hi Padma,
ReplyDeleteThe caring and concept of 'we' is definitely lacking in the present generation. Another downside of nuclear families?
Good observation about the attachment and detachment part.
You're right - its the nuclear families and distances ( in this generation ) that forces everybody to be self-sufficient, which although is good, backfires someway the concept of "we"
ReplyDeletethank you:)
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