Game of Life

I know it’s a odd question to ask the Parents and not your kids but still I wanted to ask you. “Have you ever played a video game?”

We are bit outdated when it comes to video games whereas our children are experts in this arena. We prefer to sit and watch them playing with our eyes wide open rather than trying to play and get stuck at the same level again and again.

Life is like a brand new video game. As you play, you need to unlock the future so does our life unfolds before us as we live every moment. Life is full of surprises just like a video game. Sometimes its interesting to play and we are eagerly looking forward to unlock the future levels immediately. Every level has got its difficulty level and its own treasures to gather on the go. As you play, you get protected, you get more lives, you build more. So does in life, nature and nurture are so conducive that we enjoy living our lives to the fullest.

Unfortunately, video game has a reload button while Life is a one way game. It has to be lived with much more care and concern or else we get stuck to life in some phase as we never had a HOW TO LIVE manual handed on to us.

As Parents, we would have realised by now, having played our own game of life, the most difficult phase is our child’s phase of school life. I would say, the Troubled teen phase they go through. It is troubled phase for the only reason that they don’t know whether they are kids anymore or adults already. There is a confusion in their behaviour oscillating between maturity and immaturity. There is an identity crisis and this is their transition period from childhood to adulthood.

Though, there is no LIFE MANUAL to guide them, there is still a good news. There is a wonderful solution to get them across this difficult phase. THEY HAVE YOU.

You have gone before them in this life and you know the difficulties of your time as well as theirs. Who else can better accompany them in their game of life?

With the counsel of the Elders (Grandparents, Parents, Teachers, Aunts, Uncles and well wishers), they will be able to unlock the treasures of the future and thus we will be moulding honest and holistic citizens of this world.

I would like to conclude this message with the couplet from Thirukurral, the great manual of life.

உற்றநோய் நீக்கி உறாஅமை முற்காக்கும்
பெற்றியார்ப் பேணிக் கொளல்.

Cherish the all-accomplished men as friends,
Whose skill the present ill removes, from coming ill defends.

P.S: Dear Parents, I would consider you as the ALL ACCOMPLISHED MEN AND WOMEN for your kids.