Boy : Auntie, can Anu play with us now?
Me : No, not now...
Boy : Why!!
Me : It's 8:30 and she'll have dinner.
Boy : Oh! It's unfair!!
When Rishi was Anu's age, our floor was full of kids his age and now Anu has plenty to play with too. I love talking to her friends(and I think the feeling is mutual), who also act as my shopping guide sometimes(they can't believe that I don't know what Decathlon is!). Anu's relationship with almost all of them is choppy. She's neither athletic and nor is she a sport so it's not rare for her to storm into home upset. I was not too different from her in my times and I know that she wants to be with the gang nevertheless. But unlike me, she doesn't believe in keeping her feelings to herself and many a times I drag her home still giving a mouthful to her offender, worried that she might have offended the listening mothers. I'm grateful that the kids return to call her every single day and they go to play with yay! ringing in the corridor.
Thinking of this new 10% reservation for economic backwardness, I wonder if cost of living shouldn't have a role to play. They can't equate BCR with Bangalore!
Me : No, not now...
Boy : Why!!
Me : It's 8:30 and she'll have dinner.
Boy : Oh! It's unfair!!
When Rishi was Anu's age, our floor was full of kids his age and now Anu has plenty to play with too. I love talking to her friends(and I think the feeling is mutual), who also act as my shopping guide sometimes(they can't believe that I don't know what Decathlon is!). Anu's relationship with almost all of them is choppy. She's neither athletic and nor is she a sport so it's not rare for her to storm into home upset. I was not too different from her in my times and I know that she wants to be with the gang nevertheless. But unlike me, she doesn't believe in keeping her feelings to herself and many a times I drag her home still giving a mouthful to her offender, worried that she might have offended the listening mothers. I'm grateful that the kids return to call her every single day and they go to play with yay! ringing in the corridor.
Thinking of this new 10% reservation for economic backwardness, I wonder if cost of living shouldn't have a role to play. They can't equate BCR with Bangalore!
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