There is a time in your life, when your core needs to move on to sustain; when you feel the definitive urge to handover everything and just sit back. We all have it in us, deep down, buried, undiscovered, but definitely there.
It may range from the most serious of things like handing over the reins of your business to your heir or to the most simple of things like giving your bicycle to your child. I never realised, that it never happens in that one swift move, one clean swipe of the blade and it is done…
This handing over, this relinquishing, this Passing the Torch, happens over a period of time. A period so long drawn that you often forget how it started. I do not exactly remember the day or how old my son was; only that I had stopped using my bicycle and it was gathering dust. A small discussion revealed that he always eyed that bike; what was left was to adjust the seat height, teach him about the gear mechanism, and voila!, it has been his ever since…
Today was a day which took this feeling a step further, a step so large that I feel overwhelmed. My son never asks for anything with a tantrum or demands anything without reason; it is always a very gentle “can I look at it” kind of an approach. In a similar way, when going through some club that he would need to join at School, we broached the topic of blogging and creative writing. I told him about this website of mine and he was super excited to see it…
What happened next was something that I never expected. “Can I start blogging too?” was his question. I saw that glimmer in eye, the need to do something creative, the unquenchable thirst to pour out all that would be in his heart. Sure enough, in the next half hour, he had his own WP site and he sat down to do, what I had once done a very long time ago.
Today feels like, the start of a new beginning, the start of something exciting. You can visit his blog at https://iamsiddharthiyer.wordpress.com/
© Rahul Sitaraman, 2022. All rights reserved. Views expressed are personal except where cited, and written without any malice or ill-intention. i can be reached at me@rahulsitaraman.info and rahulsitaraman@hotmail.com
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