The child is the father of the man.

                    One and half year child, in my society, calls every man ‘Papa’. Whenever his mother takes him either at the street or market, he addresses the man as ‘Papa’ whom he comes across. So everybody is amazed at this. Not only the people but also the family is surprised at it.

                               But I am not surprised at that point. I said to my family that he follows what is told or taught at home. He does what he listened. He is not doing any other thing. At home, his mother and grandparents ask him to call his father as Papa. He addresses the father as papa when his father leaves for a job and returns home.  So that makes him a bit confident in his practice. At a time, he sees a similar characteristic in other men. So he easily calls them as ‘Papa.’ He doesn’t know the meaning of it but he follows it mechanically.

                              So we should not be surprised at this. Similarly, we are also like that child. For we also keep following what we were told or instructed in life. But we never realise it like the child. Blindly we are like that child who speaks mechanically. 

                                In life, we become surprised whenever the results are before us. And most surprisingly we never realise it like the child.