This morning I woke up with a thought.. not with a thought
actually my mind was clogged like anything and only way to clear it up is
writing..Its been long since I
last posted, so many things were going on at home, work, school and life.. and then many more things happened which steered the thought process in
other direction.
Its strange how one can impact you so much.
Where to begin.. It might be just a random post, a rambling.
Hopefully my thoughts will be clearer soon. But today you and I will have to
deal with this fogginess.
The Newtown shooting shook the whole nation; I may have
reacted differently than you. I turned my TV off; I just listen to NPR and some
online news. Dint know why but I didn’t want to “see” just listen. Read so many facebook updates and posts saying stay around you
kid, hug them, do this and do that.. But nothing of that sort happened in my
home. Anand didn’t know till Saturday afternoon, his brother’s CNN addiction
was the culprit. I wasn’t home and he told Anand about it. Apparently Anand
didn’t say/ask anything.
Ajey and I talked on Saturday about it. He is 15 going on
30, my liberal thinker has his own opinion that If we support guns we are
paving for many more tragedies. I wanted to ask/talk more but my son said that he
was fine and felt sorry for the families. He was so sure that it will be talked
about for few days and people will move on. They will spend money on candles
and flowers but do nothing…
I knew Ashish will not wipe my tears on this matter either.
So with three different kinds of men in my home nothing
different happened. No hugging, no crying, no spending time with kids or
keeping them closed to heart of that sort. Nothing unusual.. Nothing new..I cooked for them
the way I do and life moved on.
Then I got an email form school on Sunday that they will
talk to kids on Monday about it. Anand’s principal has niece and nephews in
SandyBrook Elementary.
I wrote his teacher back that I am not sure how much Anand
knows.
Next day when he came home, we drove to Speech session. That
20 minutes ride is our Monday school talk time.
I asked him
about the talk. He didn’t have much to say. I kept on asking and I got little
bit on information. On the way back home he was quiet and then suddenly asked
why would anyone do that?
What Anand?
Kill those kids?
And for a second the talker mom had no answer.. I just said -nno one knows honey.. They are looking for answers..
But really… are we looking for answer or we already know
them? And trying to ignore and not finding the solution… ??
I think its enough for today.. some more later..
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