According to Mathematical calculations twenty rupees may be very less in value compared to two hundred US Dollars; but the joy born out of just twenty rupees can never be duplicated by the pleasure trips costing two hundred or even two million dollars.
The most happiest moments of joy for Jiji, my grandson, on his visit to India during the last three months of 2012 was his ecstatic ride in a toy aeroplane of the Merry Go Round in an Exhibition.He was about twenty months old and just casually his mother made him sit in the single seater toy plane of the merry go round and made him go for a few rounds at a cost of twenty rupees.
Being a single seater none of us was able to sit beside him to hold him for support.Today it is a matter of wonder how we permitted such a small child to go alone,without the provision of even a belt for fastening. The joy and cheer on jiji's face could never have been anticipated by us. As he went around in " his own plane " he looked for all our faces from the crowd at a distance and waved at us with the pride of a globe trotter.Sometimes he became intoxicated and yelled at us.
Refusing to get down after his first set of rounds, he had to be allowed to go for a second time and once again a third time.In between when his plane was stationary,curiosity made him bend and analyse the inside of the " giant plane ". All this from Jiji ,who, just a couple of months back had flown in four planes from Kansas City to Coimbatore with three transits,two of them in the busiest airports of Chicago O 'hare and London Heathrow, watching with excitement the landing and take off of several planes. At times his anxiety turned into an embarrassment for his mom on showing his protest to board the plane even after the announcement.
The same predicament had to be faced amidst the other visitors to the exhibition on his declining to step down after the third round and later pacified by his grandpa. We took him once again to the same exhibition next week.
Happiness, for the elders is always a state of the mind. But even
for a child money seems to be immaterial, many a times, for experiencing joy.
The most happiest moments of joy for Jiji, my grandson, on his visit to India during the last three months of 2012 was his ecstatic ride in a toy aeroplane of the Merry Go Round in an Exhibition.He was about twenty months old and just casually his mother made him sit in the single seater toy plane of the merry go round and made him go for a few rounds at a cost of twenty rupees.
Being a single seater none of us was able to sit beside him to hold him for support.Today it is a matter of wonder how we permitted such a small child to go alone,without the provision of even a belt for fastening. The joy and cheer on jiji's face could never have been anticipated by us. As he went around in " his own plane " he looked for all our faces from the crowd at a distance and waved at us with the pride of a globe trotter.Sometimes he became intoxicated and yelled at us.
Refusing to get down after his first set of rounds, he had to be allowed to go for a second time and once again a third time.In between when his plane was stationary,curiosity made him bend and analyse the inside of the " giant plane ". All this from Jiji ,who, just a couple of months back had flown in four planes from Kansas City to Coimbatore with three transits,two of them in the busiest airports of Chicago O 'hare and London Heathrow, watching with excitement the landing and take off of several planes. At times his anxiety turned into an embarrassment for his mom on showing his protest to board the plane even after the announcement.
The same predicament had to be faced amidst the other visitors to the exhibition on his declining to step down after the third round and later pacified by his grandpa. We took him once again to the same exhibition next week.
Happiness, for the elders is always a state of the mind. But even
for a child money seems to be immaterial, many a times, for experiencing joy.
