Day 1 - KG: "Mamma, can I live for ever?"
Me: No, KG, no one can live for ever.
KG: "So I will die?"
Me: Every one dies. Human beings live for a maximum of may be 120 years.
KG: "Awn, I want to live for ever. I don't want to die".
Me: It's OK KG, we don't need to worry about it now. Just play OK.
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Day 2: KG sitting in the bathroom - suddenly talking loudly to me.
"Mamma, when someone dies, do they get created again?".
Me: Good question KG. No one really knows for sure. When we die we again become a part of the universe.
Silence. Am sure she is still processing that information. And more questions will follow.
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16 comments:
Such deep questions. KG is growing up fast.
rrmom - yes, they all do...right in front of our eyes and suddenly on days like this you notice it...how their comprehension of the world is growing...
Its funny how they all start getting preoccupied with, or even just think about death, from a certain age...yup defly more questions are going to follow!
Hi Aparna - yesterday's question was "Mamma, Do robbers also die?". :)
So this is KG asking this. I thought for once KB and then re-read the post. Real deep thoughts i must say. Hugs to the little girl.
Do robbers also die???:) Where did THAT come from???
Sumana - well, we always call KB "thatha" with all this deep thoughts and in general his tendency to lecture on and on. KG I guess is getting influenced by all that! Although KG is now 4 yrs 8m old and I don't remember KB ever asking me so many questions about death and what happens etc...I don't know how this topic has caught her fancy now.
Aparna - well, I once told her to make sure she doesn't open the back yard door just when we are about to go out - because then I miss locking it again - when it happened a few times I told her that she should make sure to lock it because we don't want any robbers to come in and what if they take away some toys or stuff we have inside the house...we have to lock it to keep them out. So she has this curiosity about that whole concept of why on earth a robber would take stuff from our house. She doesn't know if they are some kind of invincible aliens or something! :)
BTW - this evening at the dinner table - her question was "Mamma, will you, me, KB and daddy die at the same time?" :) For which her enlightened brother promptly said "NO NO!!! We will NOT all die at the same time. And randomly started listing a couple of his friends also and said, first X will die, then me, then Y etc etc". By that time B and I were just laughing! It was getting to be too crazy this whole topic. We told them "Come on guys enough of this. Let's just have fun now when we are living. We don't have to worry about death now".
So cute to read the whole story! How much KG would have thought to ask such questions! Sweet
Children are unknowingly capable of such deep philosophy!
*sigh* Our little girls are growing up too noonoo.
This KG is not so kutti anymore :( She sounds very wise Noonie and such profound philosophical thoughts. Awesome - she is!
The question of death came up in our household too! And I loved this line of yours - "When we die we again become a part of the universe." I'm going to use that!
--NW
Akil's mom - thanks! Yeah - the topic is still going on in her head!
ADLM - yes, they really are!
Neera - tell me about it! Come on write more often! Not info posts.
MN - really - ore philosophy!
NW - thanks. It kind of gives me solace to think of it that way. Read that sort of sentiment in some Buddhist philosophy book.
wow. the queries that kids can come up with!
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