Through Little Eyes

Can you ever be like this, caught in a world of your own with the entire world looking at you. You have no clue of what is happening behind you. More so, you don't have apprehensions of people saying anything about what you do.
And that is what your children teach you. I was with my son a few weeks back taking a holiday with the missus in tow. We stopped at a series of steps in the resort and there was a small millipede that was crawling around. My son was in raptures at seeing it and entering the world of the curious cat. He stood there maybe for about 15 minutes watching it go from one end of the step to the other end of the step and that was it. His day was made. He had learned a new thing. Two points came to me at the end of this episode

1. How conscious are we of the people around us and therefore how conscious are we of society. Do we live as free birds removed away from social pressures or do we succumb to the sheep mentality. I guess all of us go through phases in life and being a sheep is just one part of it. We do want to become the lone eagle in the sky, but then for some it is dependence on society that makes us become conformists. We can talk a lot about singularity and how it affects each one of us. But remember one thing that as you thrust more and more on conformism on your children, you reduce their chances of coming out of their shells and discovering the environment around them.
2. The other big question that hit me was that when was the last time i learned a new thing. No, it is not about learning math or physics, but of discovering something new. A child is constantly learning and does so through all of its sensory organs and brains. I noticed a remarkable change in my son, who is all of now 2 years and 8 months. He has become inquisitive and every conversation ends in a "Why" or every other conversation begins with a "Why". Suppose you started with every hour of your day with a "Why", it would mean that by the end of the day you would have learnt at least 10 new things. Now isn't that exciting

Both of these go hand in hand. As you learn everyday, your mind starts deviating from set patterns and starts generating its own pattern and thereby helps you become a Singularity.
Why Gods, Why People
Why Gods in People
Why People in Gods
Why myth, Why reality
If both were inseparable
Where would we be