Paper Pencil Eraser

Just yesterday I saw Asmi my lil kid sitting and doing her homework. She is very particular about the way she does her work. Has her own style to do things..so when she sits to do her homework she makes sure that she has this big eraser with her. She was engrossed in her homework..and then suddenly she seemed to get upset with herself. She looked around.. i could see a frown on her cute face and then she slowly picked up the eraser and rubbed off the mistake she had made while writing, making sure that the eraser marks are not seen on the paper...as she rewrote on the erased paper and i could not help but notice her smile as she finished off the work. She got up and came to me beaming with joy....and showed me her homework...it was a neat job..I asked her....so beta did you use the eraser...she smiled and said "haan ek baar" and she told me how she corrected it.

After she left to play with her friend...i kept thinking of what i had just seen...and with nothing better to do.....a few thoughts came up in my mind....the paper that she was writing her homework...appeared to be like our life.....the pencil...which she used to write on the paper appeared like us....humans......and the eraser....it was like the moment god gives us to rectify our mistakes....and how true it is.....our life too is like that white paper...and its upto to us how we end up using it......for asmi....she wanted it to be neat and clean....she wrote slowly and made sure nothing was untidy..the same is with us too.....some of us choose to live a clean life...careful with everything we do...every decisions we make. The pencil she used to write is like us....its upto us as to how we write on that blank paper.....whether we want it to be clean.....patchy .......colorful...or at times torn and tattered and the eraser......its the oppurtunity that we get....to make amends and make our lives better.


I feel that i have not been as good as my kid when it comes to handling life...i have had so many oppurtunites to make amends....try to make things better but have lacked the will power or the heart to try...wonder why i end up being meek....maybe i am not the only one who feels this way.....if you have read this and u feel u can add to what i have just said i would welcome your thoughts......

Amit