To Sanjay : on your first few steps

Sanjay, as you take your first steps towards education and knowledge-gaining - i wish for you the following:
1. i wish for school to be a fun place for you, where you would love to go to every day

2. I wish for you to get lovely firends , like i did

3. i wish for you to enjoy your childhood

4. i wish for you to play well and fair

5. i wish for you to never stop asking why. I dread the day, education, formal as it is, will kill your questioning skills. beleive me,i have been through it, and now as an adult, and one who is a knowledge worker, i realise the importance of asking why.. i had stopped asking it and realise i might have learnt so much more, if i had asked why..

6. I wish for you to seek to understand, rather than merely accept. I dread again, that our education system, bookish as it is, may force you to acceept things as they are, and just force them onto memory, and thats not so difficult... it is more difficult to seek to understand.. So Baby, i wish that you would always seek to understand, and feel restless till you do..
Mom wasnt so bad. i remember asking my science teacher in 6th std, why sugar would dissolve faster in hot water than in cold water..and as years went i stopped noticing, and questioning...
I hope your inquisitive spirit never dies...
And for my side, i will strive to never tell you, thats just the way it is.. dont question

7. i wish you are accepted and you will accept everyone. like i read in a paper, exclusivity is a crime. I would break my heart to see you either being a victim of it or practising it.

8. i hope , when it comes to making career choices, you are pretty sure of what you want. I would love you to have a passion of your own and work in that direction. I wish you to know what you want yourself to be. I am still searching that...

9. I wish you would love reading and writing like i do.. just a wish.. it woudl be fun for us, when you are old enough to discuss books.. i havent read much after school.. so we shoudl be on the same page.. he he
its ok, if you are not literarily inclined and get into sports and all that.. whatever, its nice to have a pet peeve..

may be its the 3 idiots effect, you should watch it once, when you are old enough.. but it is very very important to learn just for learning... and seek to understand and question... we are all born with it, and like that quote goes, education ruins it.. which probably explains all those montessori school with enormous fees...
i just hope you never become a rote learner...

All the best Sanju. as you take your baby steps in this world..i loved my school days.. i hope u find them memeorable too...

PS: written a long time back , when i was free in office...got time to publish it only now... Sanju's been going to school for a few weeks now.. going fine... except for a kid biting him in the arm..i did take it up with his teachers.. life goes on..