What is your biggest weakness?

We all have our own particular devils to face.What might be my weakness might be your strenght or a matter so inconsequential that you hardly think about it. There is a long list of human weaknesses ( wealth,jealousy, anger etc) but one which afflicts  majority of us is our children. We maybe the most happening and successful people on the face of this planet but when it comes to our children we are so vulnerable. We worry about their future, fret about their health, are concerned about their self esteem, keep an eagle eye on the kind of friends they cultivate, can't tolerate any third party criticism directed towards them, want them to achieve the best, we take pride in their in all their accomplishments from the the time they are toilet trained and see the progress in their lives as an indirect validation of our success ultimately. It is soo..... scary. At some point in time we have to learn to let go of our expectations for their future and the severe the psychological link through which we take vouyeuristic pride in their accomlishments. It is only then we can be begin to be their life coaches and train them to get up every time they fall, to persevere in giving their best and to become the kind of person that they are proud of as a human being.

Joy

Swaying and dancing
dark green tree tops
against bue grey skies.

Rhythm, music
filling the air.

Chirps, twitters
and
fluttering grey wings.

Pelting raindrops
drowning
footsteps of creeping thoughts.

A moment of
just being alive
A moment of
just being
A moment of pure joy.

Anjali Kumar