The Master Chef

My friends were watching the chef roll the dough and finally start chopping it into very fine slices and then he tossed them around to show off the separated noodles. They all felt the thrill of watching this master in action. We appreciate the mundane things that happen round us not realizing that this is exactly what that chef has been doing for the last 25 to 30 years of his life.That is his job or duty to perform the same menial task in front of an audience. For him it just pays his salary!

Don't we do the same in our jobs with precision just like that cool chef?

We too perform our menial tasks with precision and same interest but never get a clap!

But we do get paid just like him.

Then why do we have to clap for that person or appreciate the job that he is doing?

The claps or commendations spurs us to excel in the mundane tasks also.

To become a master and then to teach the same to the students so that they can emulate us better. They should far excel us and go beyond the limits set by our mind.

This is the reason why we expect our children to far excel us in our own world.

We set the bars higher and higher so that they can surpass us.

We thrust our ambitions on them too without realizing that they may not want to be the master chef but would just like to be themselves.

Here is the catch....we want to excel so we want our kids to do better than us.

The desires are our own and not theirs.

Why do we have to thrust our desires onto them?

Let them express themselves just the way they can naturally!

But during the molding years we need to just put them on the path so that they find their groove themselves. Then let them be!!!

Haven't we suffered all our lives for not doing what we really want to do?

Giving our inner feelings the expression has never happened!

So now just let them do what they feel is right for themselves.

Give them the choice and LET IT BE!

Just be around when they need a shoulder or a friend to talk to!

So now getting back to the chef again.

Enjoy that experience and just move on.

He is just doing his job and clap when he does the chop,chop,chop!!

Let us also do the job of raising our kids the best way and the claps will follow when they excel in the subject of their choice.

Let them set their own bars and give them the freedom of expressing themselves the way they want to.

Let us be a bystander and watch the show with fascination and clap and then move on and let them find their own master who will mold them better.

We can teach them as parents but the master makes them who they should be!

So let us do our duties and let the master do his!