LIFE OF PI

What am I doing here? A 60 yr old man with a 1 yr old kid in a strange land caged in an apartment 6 metre above earth along with a 57yr old frightened lady. Kannan has never been known to b associated with any kid, leave alone his own two kids. Kids never got comfortable with him  all these umpteen years,then what about the adults and the  madame associated with him by force of law.He searched his memory 30 yrs back ,to get an idea of how he raised his kids and has come to the conclusion’ he never gave even more than than an hour or two per day, not that he hated them, in fact he even loved them [atleast he thoughtso] ,but the thing was  that he couldn’t find the time or that they were never available to him to play with or to fondle. In short he never bothered ,since he was pretty sure that they were being well looked after, may be by his wife? the neighbours? Or his own parents and relatives. Off course he found ample time to discipline them. To be precise he never knew them, for sure.

Now it’s a different situation altogether and he was caught napping in front of an infant darling ,the naughty grand child of his own blood,the ever active or rather hyperactive,innocent and curious Kavya the great, with all the time in the world and no way of any evasive escape to the external world and No bloody excuses. The man who never knew the art of loving or expressing his love , accustomed to conditioned reflexes of running the 24 hr day , with a naughty kid yet to start on any conditioning except for the cry to two things food and sleep . It was basically like the kid and tiger in a boat in the sea. His greatest challenge ever! He knew the solution to the problem after a day or two and that was to bring out the kid within himself and to play the clown with out any inhibition. Has he come out the gallant victor? Or a total failure as always, only little Kavya can answer. But yet he felt he was giving his unconditional best ,not bothered about the results , a true karma yogi.