CrAdLes aNd DrooBles

Cow milk, goat milk , buffalo milk , toned milk, full cream and what not . It is interesting how humans give their babies every possible form of milk other than their own , while all other animals prefer to keep matters to their own mammary glands.



Little blobs of meaningless bundles of energy we eventually grow up to become even more puzzled and confused about our existence than we initially were.


What are babies? Where do they come from? Okay lets try and keep this article PG-13 and not delve into the biological aspects of it, but babies are basically our young ones, the tender saplings from whom we bloom into trees, shrubs, pitcher plants, medicinal herbs and what not.

Those big puppy eyes, that cute little smile, that shiny face.They’ve always scared the living daylights out of me. Kids are always upto something!! Watch one episode of ‘Rugrats’ or ‘Kids next Door’ and you’ll be convinced that babies are actually aliens from outer space out her to annihilate our entire race or perhaps eat us for thanksgiving on their home planet.

Even that is nothing compared to what the movie ‘Orphan’ would inflict on your mind once you get around to watch it. The movie very eerily shows a young girl being adopted by a childless couple,who later realize that that girl was actually a 40 year old seasoned serial killer whose growth had been stunted as a child . She had been pretending to be a little girl just to get into the house and while the parents would go to work she’d be busy killing people all around.

Freaky eh?. Now that’s certainly going to make you think twice the next time u see your nephew or niece looking at you suspiciously with that toy knife in their hands..


Delving a little into metaphysics, what if this life we live is the afterlife itself and our mothers wombs are actually tombs? Okay lets slow down a little.

What if we live a life , a very different life from this one and upon culmination of that life , we enter our tombs i.e. our mother’s wombs from which after nine months of exile we are reborn into this present world i.e. the afterlife that I speak of (which we consider to be life not afterlife offcourse), only to die again and enter some other form of tomb and then live another form of life …

Too speculative, confusing and wacky eh? Lets forget about that then. Lets talk a little about the things that we do know of but choose to ignore.

According to studies, a person is most creative the moment he’s born and then gradually his creativity depreciates. A popular Science journal once conducted a survey at many schools in this regard, where they drew a simple black circle on a large drawing sheet and asked kids of various age groups what it was. While kids in their late teens mockingly wondered what the big deal about a stupid black dot was, the answers got far more interesting as they went onto lower classes.

One kindergartener thought it was a picture of his pet cat while another wondered what his aunt Rosy’s head was doing on a drawing paper. The answers kept on getting wackier from globular alien monsters to black stars to thumbprints to deformed teddy bears , electric guitars and what not.

Bewildered by the findings of this study, I myself tried it at home. While my parents simply told me off for waving a stupid black dot in their face and reprimanded me for not doing something worthwhile with my life , my 3 year old niece on the contrary was baffled at how I had somehow managed to turn an apple black and stuff it onto a drawing sheet.

Children are no doubt the acme of creative skills and out of the box thinking. They’re obviously mocked at for being too immature and cocky but think for a moment, isn’t this kind of innovation and creativity just what we need in today’s world?

What if we could tap into this huge pool of creative skills and find solutions to so many of the modern day issues?
I know you must be thinking how would little kids who believe in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny help solve magnanimous issues like global warming?

Well its not the kids themselves but we who need to change. As we grow up we conform ourselves to social norms, tailoring our thinking and adhering to social conventions and that is where we go wrong. By carving ourselves to fit into already available niches we sadly become just like our predecessors and thus the problems stay as it is …


Largely we are of a single mindset with offcourse a few exceptions in the form of the Newtons and the Einsteins of our world who dare to let the child in them imagine and aren’t afraid to innovate.

Why do we feel so scared to go out and slide in the mud when it rains?

Why is so tough to laugh stupidly for no apparent reason at all?

Why is it so embarrassing to create make belief farts from our underarms?

Why do we hesitate to go out in the snow and make obese big breasted snowmen?

Truth is as time goes by we turn into cynical obnoxious mechanical morons who feel threatened with the slightest changes in their routines or thinking. What we need to do is to let go. Seriously let the child in you breathe free. Don’t be scared . The only thing you will loose is your honkiness and on the bright side you’d gain creativity , innovation and peace of mind.