As we grow up, our brain evolves, we understand a variety of things and our perspectives change. We look at the world with a different view as our responsibilities grow we change as a person. We get more serious in life and try to look at any problem from a more mature point of view. We lose the child inside us, somewhere along the way. 
and said “Doraemon Video”.
And voila! Google did the job. The search page looked like this.
He clicked on the link, gave me a smirk as the video started, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I was amused. He outsmarted me, but it made me happy.
Fast forward to another incident.
3 days later, my Aunt(Mami) dropped her phone. The screen cracked and the lower half of the screen stopped working. Mami was tense as she was not able to call anyone or even receive a call. Now here's where the smart boy entered. Sanket goes to a play school in the colony itself and at 11 AM, Mami and I went to pick him up from school. On the way, Mami told him how she dropped the phone and it wasn't working now.
When we came back, he asked for the phone from Mami and began inspecting it. As usual, Mami asked him to stop playing with it and told him to have his lunch. But, do you know what that ingenious kid did? He simply tapped the mic button on google search bar and said: "Call Papa!".
And there's no need to tell what happened next, is there? I was definitely taken aback this time. How on Earth couldn't I have thought about this? All this time I have been using a smartphone and its voice feature and still couldn't think of it, while a 3-year-old child did. He did not even know the basics of a smartphone. He just knew that feature and he applied it.
It got me thinking that we take our problems too seriously. Life isn't so complicated; we make it complicated. We lose the child inside us as we grow up and we think we know too much. We go to school, go to colleges, get degrees and work in a big firm earning good money but where is that imagination, that curiosity, the creativity we had as children.
We have gathered so much knowledge but what's the use if you can't apply it? Sometimes we don't need to think big, but, instead, we need to search within ourselves. Ask that child inside us, what would they do? And maybe we'll get the answers to our problem.
Cheers!
and said “Doraemon Video”.
And voila! Google did the job. The search page looked like this.
He clicked on the link, gave me a smirk as the video started, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I was amused. He outsmarted me, but it made me happy.
Fast forward to another incident.
3 days later, my Aunt(Mami) dropped her phone. The screen cracked and the lower half of the screen stopped working. Mami was tense as she was not able to call anyone or even receive a call. Now here's where the smart boy entered. Sanket goes to a play school in the colony itself and at 11 AM, Mami and I went to pick him up from school. On the way, Mami told him how she dropped the phone and it wasn't working now.
When we came back, he asked for the phone from Mami and began inspecting it. As usual, Mami asked him to stop playing with it and told him to have his lunch. But, do you know what that ingenious kid did? He simply tapped the mic button on google search bar and said: "Call Papa!".
And there's no need to tell what happened next, is there? I was definitely taken aback this time. How on Earth couldn't I have thought about this? All this time I have been using a smartphone and its voice feature and still couldn't think of it, while a 3-year-old child did. He did not even know the basics of a smartphone. He just knew that feature and he applied it.
It got me thinking that we take our problems too seriously. Life isn't so complicated; we make it complicated. We lose the child inside us as we grow up and we think we know too much. We go to school, go to colleges, get degrees and work in a big firm earning good money but where is that imagination, that curiosity, the creativity we had as children.
We have gathered so much knowledge but what's the use if you can't apply it? Sometimes we don't need to think big, but, instead, we need to search within ourselves. Ask that child inside us, what would they do? And maybe we'll get the answers to our problem.
Cheers!