What they have naturally, what we lack unfortunately !

Children have this uncanny trait and the best habit in built into their Psyche, to forget and forgive instantly once the situation is over. They fight tooth and nail for the same toy or same book or for any thing that they seek. And as easily as they got worked up, they give up and totally forget the incident within minutes.

Where as we adults never forget some one's indiscretion against us. We remember that for a life time and accumulate the grudge and hatred as much as possible. It is our Ego that does not allow us to forget the past incidents or words that could have happened or done against us. There is no word as "forget " and " forgive " in our dictionary. We build up tensions till we land up with hypertension.

The other day my grand son Arjun was disobeying me right Royally by not listening to my command to refrain from talking on the Mobile when it is under charging. He went a step further, when I removed the charger from the plug socket,by putting his tiny finger in the plug socket and switching it on. I lost my cool and spanked him on the bottoms and hit him on his fingers with a scale, to dislodge him from the electrical point. He raised hell, crying and ran to his grandma to complain on me.

Within seconds he came back to me laughing and started playing with me as if nothing happened between us ! He just forgot and forgave the grand pa's cruelty !

I realized that my Ego would have never allowed me to make friends again with some one who roughs me up, what ever may be the reason.

That is what my grandson had and I miserably lacked. If only we Adults behave in a more mature manner in this world, perhaps, half of our problems will disappear !