Growing Old / Growing Up

Picture this – children playing a game in the courtyard and fighting over who is right/wrong as per the rules of the game, the parents trying to resolve the dispute since things might get violent and the grand parents simply watching all this with a smile, having been there, done that and knowing that it’s just a game and whatever the outcome the family would be dining together that evening…

Life is as simple – there are those(Children) who play the game of chasing power/wealth/fame, then there are those(parents) who feel that their intervention is necessary for resolving the disputes arising in the game since they feel responsible for the children and then above all are those(Grandparents) who know that none of this really matters…. You will find such people throughout life and the role that they play depends on their maturity and acceptance that life is nothing but a game being played by eternity, of eternity, for eternity. The Grandparents mindset is a product of experience of having been children, parents and knowing that nothing is permanent except change… 

You have to get the Grandparents wisdom(by sheer experience or listening to the wise) which is nothing but detachment with love and yet be young at heart to play the game of life. Keeping young at heart doesn’t mean that you have to be childish, it means that you have to be childlike. Know that you are playing a game of life that may not (most probably won’t ;-)) turn out in your favour and still accept the result as lovingly. Grandparents love all present – the children & parents, yet choose to remain detached from the result of the game without taking sides…