GIVING WITHOUT ASKING, GIVING EXPECTING NOTHING IN RETURN!

GIVING WITHOUT ASKING, GIVING EXPECTING NOTHING IN RETURN! 

I was returning in a pensive mood from the cemetery with my grandson in the afternoon today - my father's birthday, ... in the hot afternoon, on a lonely stretch of road.

Over a distance, I saw a lady with 2 long pieces of sugar cane, casually handing them over to a poor woman by the roadside tending to her cows.

No one asking,..... giving not expecting anything in return! No photos, no wall posters, no clapping, and no social media posts!

All of a sudden Pongal day looked a more brighter, happier and wonderful day!

Louis Armstrong’s song came to my mind! .... ‘It is a wonderful, wonderful world!'

TIMES ARE CHANGING, WHILE YOUTH REMAIN THE SAME & RECEPTIVE!

 TIMES R CHANGING WHILE YOUTH REMAIN THE SAME & RECEPTIVE!

My 6-year grandson a month ago was out shopping with the family for the festive season. All he wanted was a toy plastic camera, being sold by a roadside vendor which clicked and showed about 6 pictures costing Rs 80. Nothing else!

I remembered having an old Lumix camera with its own battery. Probably 20 or more years old. The recharging unit was missing and the modern mobiles have replaced the cameras at least for the common man like me.

I located the Lumix camera with some difficulty.  Ordered the correct recharging unit online. I received only a new (another) battery with no recharging unit. So now I had 2 batteries now lying useless.

Not put back by this setback as the love of the grandchild above all! 

After locating a photography shop in Coimbatore I  placed an order for the recharger and got it 48 hours and at one-fourth of the price too!

Finally, everything worked, I surprised my grandson with it! He was thrilled. He, with my assistance, took ordinary snaps, close portraits,  wide angles, panoramic shots and even a video with it!

Then he tried sweeping the screen to see the images! Nada, this was from the non-touchscreen of the yester era. But he was satisfied with the back and forward keys to do the job of seeing the images.

After that,  casually he said, "How do you take a selfie?" The thought never even struck me till now. I told him to turn the handy camera backwards and take a shot .... which he did very well!

The philosophical point I wish to make is that 
-the newer generation of people innately have higher expectations in life and
- the more 50-year-old folks think through this and understand the youth in the changing digital world of today, the better!

By the way have no doubts about the joy my grandson has with this digital, but the old-fashioned camera... he loves it! I hope to show him the SD memory card in future and how to transfer images to the desktop  ... as a teaching tool. 

It is left to us as parents and grandparents to educate children at home on our old traditions as they grow in the fast-moving world.  One ideally should not expect the schools to do all the heavy lifting of teaching everything!

The youth will probably develop the background of the older generations and understand why they can be ancient in their sometimes conservative ways!