Eight years ago, my first assignment was to improve an account on Apple Inc. Leaving two children, all of 1 and 3 years respectively and intent on giving my best, I sit at the desktop and concentrate for an hour. Then, the minute I hear loud giggles, I want to push the chair and stand up, it doesn't move..... I look around to see heaps of toys thrown around the room with no place left for a single step, the young one's diaper hanging heavy and the older one's nose flowing out with a white trail into the mouth. Struck by reality, I feel guilty for not caring for them and being in my own world!!
Cut to the present day, I get to work on yet another Apple analysis, now at an easier pace. After a heavy Sunday breakfast, I retire into my den with the laptop and come back after an hour. This is the mess, spread up in the hall!! Ignoring my perplexed looks, Kaka leads me into the middle and explains how they have built a city, with airports, metro, swimming pools, sports arenas and many many more nuances....
Though the first thought that came to my mind was the miniature digital plan of CBN's Amaravathi; it slowly led into that deja vu moment I had!! And the aftermath is like; is the age just adding up years to these kids?? or is there anything worthwhile value addition that it is making..... to these children, as nothing seems to have changed in them over the years, but the spectacles that Kaka wears and the lost canines among Prithvi's teeth!!!
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