Dear Daughter ....

One of the things we do as a family is look at all our pictures. Just a random slide show, of all the pictures playing on the family TV when  nothing More interesting is on. It's a big and ever growing collection of pictures - right from our wedding to any taken in the recent past. I have also been meaning to get the older printed ones scanned and available for this collection.  You recognise some faces, some events - of course from the time you've been with us. Surprisingly, you can also guess about some of our pictures that are way older than you are - from a time that seems like a life before last. One  fact is, we might already have a bigger collection of pictures with you in our lives than those without. To a large extent, this is purely because its much easier now to be able to capture happier moments on a reproducible medium than it ever before was. Our parents and us mostly relied on ...

That's how you ask for things  now a days- "can I want to have  cheese?" "Can I want to have berries? '' Most of the times it is accompanied  by a respectful tone of pleading  or request.  That is how you have, although unintentionally, learnt the art of merging  a demand and a request. Like a  skilful diplomat.  You watch quite a variety of  programmes on TV now. Along  with those come the advertisements  full of happy smiling kids and happy  smiling parents selling delightful,  colourful toys. For quite a few  of them you start with an almost  hypnotised tone of "I want that  one''. Even while getting ready  you seem to have formed your  opinions about what you want to  wear and how you want your  hair done. Or not. You have definitely begun  to assert yourself. And you  are not even three yet! Dean daughter, 'Want' or ' Desire' is all what life...