Kanav turned two and a half years just 2 days back
Every day in the morning, I try to leave for office before Kanav wakes up. But if he is awake, Preeti either takes him for Brushing his teeth or tries to do something innovative to divert his attention from me, for if he witnesses me leaving the house, it would become difficult to control him and he would just cling himself to me.
This sequence started from only couple of months and I don't even remember from when. Life is extremely continuous and with negligible knee jerks which sometimes make me look like the complete lifetime has been lived in present and the past seems to be a different life altogether. I and Preeti often wonder as to what was our life as a couple before Kanav and I am sure after our second kid this October we would be wondering about our current life with Kanav alone.
So much has been recited about living life in present that anything what I say about discovering life seems to be completely Bourgeois. But what happened today morning just cuts through this bourgeios from the surface and shows me as to what we call "the real discovery of life".
As usual I was about to leave office and was late. Suddenly Kanav came through his room, half awake and seeing me, he ran to occupy my lap. I winked at Preeti to do the obvious and Preeti on the pretext of playing with him took him to the kitchen. He saw me packing my office bag and suddenly said - "BYE PAPA". The moments of discovery are just Eureka and this was nothing less.
I and Preeti were just zapped and momentarily looked at each other with astonishment. While preeti sent Kanav along with his nani into the ground, I just can't stop myself exclaming that my kid has grown intelligent. WHY IS IT NOT A WEEKEND? I so much want to play with Kanav.
Manish
