Happy valentines day Yuvanians……..
Suhani was teaching Yuvani cycling, and Yuvani was not letting Suhani take her hand off the cycle.
Suh: Beta, now I am going to take my hand off,
Yuvani: (frightened) Mumma no, please, please, I would fall.
Suhani smiles.
Suh: (comforting her) Beta, listen, I am here, I am with you, nothing will happen, let me take off my hands.
Yuvani: Please Mumma, I am afraid.
Suh: So, you will ride like this, with me holding the cycle? Huh?
Yuvani: (after a thought, a bit confused) well no, you can’t hold it always.
Suh: So let me take it off now.
Yuvani looked at her mother.
Suh: It is ok to fall.
Yuvani: But,
Suh: No buts. To get balance in cycling, you have to fall.
Yuvani: Why?
Suh: Because you are doing this for the first time.
Yuvani looked on confused.
Suh: Beta, if you don’t make a mistake, then you are not trying something new, and you are here to try something new, and unless you do it wrong….
Yuvani: (still confused) I won’t study cycling?
Suh: Yes.
Yuvani: So I have to fall, and fall,
Suh: Until you get the balance in riding.
Yuvani: And what if I fall after getting balance?
Suh: You won’t.
Yuvani: Pakka?
Suh: (smiling) Pakka.
Suhani took her hand back, and Yuvani fell.
Suhani smiled fondly, and lifted her up.
Yuvani: Mumma, my leg is paining.
Suh: It is ok beta,
Yuvani: You said I have to fall until I get balance, so it will hurt again and agaian na?
Suh: Yeah,
Yuvani looked sad for a moment, then,
Yuvani: (happily) Then I won’t go to school,
Suh: Why?
Yuvani: Because I would have wounds.
Suh: Ok,
Yuvani: (excitedly) so you would let me take leave?
Suh: Only under one condition,
Yuvani: And that is,
Suh: You have to cover up for your classes, do extra work,
Yuvani: I can’t.
Suh: So decide what will you do?
Yuvani: But it would be painful to go with wounds,
Suh: Initially it is
Yuvani: Then,
Suh: You will get used.
Yuvani: How?
Suh: You won’t feel the pain.
Yuvani: How?
Suh: Hm…. Who is the strongest one here?
Yuvani: Anuj Chachu.
Suh: Ok, why is he strong?
Yuvani: Because he never feels pain.
Suh: Why?
Yuvani: He is grown up and grownups don’t feel the pain.
Suh: But you said he is the strongest,
Yuvani: Yes,
Suh: Stronger than Mumma?
Yuvani: Yes,
Suh: Why? Isn’t Mumma a grown up?
Yuvani: (confused) Yes,
Suh: Then….
Yuvani: I don’t know, why is it then Mumma?
Suh: Because he practises with dumbbells.
Yuvani: So?
Suhani smiles.
Suh: Come with me.
She takes her to Anuj’s room and asked her to lift his dumbbells and she was not able to.
Yuvani: Mumma, it is very heavy.
Suh: I know, now Mumma will try.
Anuj looked on a bit confused.
Anuj: Bhabhi what is,
Suhani signed him, he looked on.
She was able to lift it but with difficulty.
Yuvani: Mumma, you look like you are struggling,
Suh: I am.
Yuvani: So it is heavy for you too?
Suh: It is. Now let Chachu take it.
Anuj took it without any trouble.
Yuvani: Wow, Chachu!
Suh: How did he do it with ease?
Yuvani: Because Chachu is strong!
Anuj understood why Suhani was doing all these.
Anuj: No, it is because I am practising it for years, I am used to it. At first, I was like you, I was not able to lift it,
Yuvani: Then, how did you take it now?
Anuj: Because I practised it every day, and then by passing of days, I was able to lift it like your Mumma did, and later it became easy for me, like now.
Yuvani: Because you do it every day.
Anuj: Yes.
Yuvani: (to Suhani) so, if I fall every day, then after some time, it won’t pain me, when I fall?
Suh & Anuj: Yes.
Yuvani: You have to prove it.
Anuj: We can’t.
Yuvani: Then I won’t listen to you.
Suh: Don’t.
Yuvani: Then?
Anuj: Try it yourself.
Yuvani: Ok and I fail then?
Suh: (thinking) if you fail…….
Yuvani: You both will do what I say.
Suh & Anuj: Done!
Yuvani: Pakka?
Suh & Anuj: Yes.
Yuvani hugs both of them.
Yuvani: Ok Mumma, cycling?
Suh: Yeah, we will continue.
They leave.