How To Be Positive

Sure Mangaii, I will do that, would definitely like to know how other parents deal with such issues.

 

Actually I have stopped it, I have learned to forgive him, just that I wonder how someone can be so detached from their own people. If he hadn't kept on upping the pressure, this wouldn't have happened. My son wouldn't have been looking secretly at his iPad in the bathroom if he weren't worried that it would be taken away from him.

 

Frankly, I did not think that far when I chose the name, I knew the meaning of Sarvaantaryami, I had a feeling it would sound pompous, but I felt it was a nice name, it is also one of the thousand names of Goddess Parvati, so I chose it. The path to God seems to be so difficult sometimes, getting detached to self and others is not easy. I am nowhere near that perfection. I have a lot of flaws, I get depressed easily, can't make up my mind, am insecure and not the risk taking type. To keep up the spirit is not easy, especially when someone thinks they have great spirits and anyone who is trying to be tough is contending with them, instead of thinking they are trying hard to be in their good books. As far as my son is concerned, he is seeing too much for his age, handling too much as well. I can only help by being more responsible and less detached to unimportant stuff as mentioned. But that is also proving to be a task. Thank you for your kind words.

 

That was a typo, I meant to be less attached to unimportant stuff. Over the course of years, I am learning slowly what is important and unimportant. Just that when such things (like my son's exploits) happen, I don't know how to react. I blocked his iPad from the websites, but I need to block the Mac laptop too and unfortunately those settings are not working at all. To keep one's mouth shut is also a difficult thing. To follow Gandhi's 3 monkey policy is not easy. The world seems a dull place when at the end of the day it is only about survival and nothing else, no feelings, no emotions, just one mad race.