Fall

Nitin got off the chair and table which had become his office since the lock down began in March. Work from Home - something that he had longed for years was finally reality. However he soon realised it is not as much fun! The work hours have been long and tiring.

His only respite has been that he was able to see a lot of his 1 year old son. Was able to play with him, see him grow, feed him when he got time and much more.

Nitin got off his chair as he saw Adi come running to him.. he picked him up and tossed him up in the air and caught him back. Adi was all giggles and laughter when Nitin did this. He repeated this a couple of times and let him go to play again.

As he got back to his working table and chair, he thought about the very act of tossing the baby up in the air and how the children always enjoy it. He thought as child he must have also enjoyed being tossed up and being caught.

However, where did the enjoyment come from? Come to think of it today, it is pretty scary. To get tossed up in the air and be at the mercy of someone's ability to catch you. The risk of a FALL is huge. If someone was to do this today to him... And he shrugged the thought away from his head.

He kept on introspecting and found a very logical explanation to why a child enjoys and doesn't have any fear of a fall. "Trust" and "Experience"

Trust - the child trusts you on being able to hold him. Most important the child hasn't experienced a Fall. May be if any of the days any of the child falls, he may start getting scared of the act. It does happen when the same child grows up and starts running around and starts playing around - sometimes does fall from heights and then the fear of getting tossed up starts setting in the head!

Thinking about this more... He realised one more very important thing. As children we trust more because the experiences are less and as we grow and start gaining experiences, our trust on people, things, processes reduces. The reason behind it is pretty simple - Bad or Adverse experiences. As adults we start trusting less and questioning more because of fear of the fall!

When the child is happy being tossed up - it's because of trust. Nitin suddenly had one more thought cross his mind - how do I experience the same happiness and joy like Adi.

After a lot of thinking - he got an answer to his question - he needs to trust - people, process, things. Learn from the experience but still continue to trust.

Trust - it is always a two way process and never one way traffic. He needed to trust everything around him for people around him to trust him!

He suddenly realised one of the biggest reason behind his long working hours - doing too much of work himself. He hardly ever gave up some of his work to others for the lack of trust - it resulted him being grumpy and tired!

So why didn't he trust - Because of the fear of fall!

He immediately got his act together and figured out how to manage this whole thing by trusting his colleagues and friends and at the same time keep learning from the falls and rise and shine again!

With a new found resolution to Trust More and Not Fear the Fall Nitin got back to his laptop with a wide smile!

Adi had taught him a big life lesson just with his giggles and laughs!