Question is to learn !!

An inquisitive child inspires me to write my blog today, sitting quiet on the window seat he didn’t say much until he saw his mom talking to me. Later I explained him the concept of IndiGo passport that is given to kids and how he can flaunt it in front of his friends. From there started his series of question that made me feel like a batsman on pitch, who though has experience to answer queries but has to deal with a new baller this time. his questions had their own pace and the difficulty was not in hitting the ball but to bat it in a way to clear boundary every time and hence clear the doubts of kid. I don’t really know how much I scored but surely know that he looked convinced and hence offered me his friendship which I happily accepted.

As a kid we never thought twice before questioning, for we never believed that any question can be a stupid question or make us sound like a fool, all we knew was that we have to feed our mind with thoughts to questions it raised. We were never ashamed of asking question to anyone, be it the eldest of family member or the little sibling, be it the help at home or an acquaintance out door. As we grew up our thought process became smaller and ego became bigger, we started feeling that to question is to display ourselves as fool and feel little. We forgot the very gist, that to question is to learn and to ignore a query is to kill the opportunity to learn and grow.

Manisha Dawar