A wrist watch

My wife, being lobbied by our 11 year old son persuaded me to buy him an electronic wrist watch some 5 days ago. The next day though he was not very well and on most such occasions finds a way not to attend the school went to the school proudly wearing it.

But yesterday I found it abandoned on the table and was damaged not because of its own fault but by the extensive research he and his friends had carried out on it.

Though I knew children are always like this, I felt angry.A child from a lower middle-class family whose father was an alcoholic , who had to complete an academic year with only a pair of dresses,who had to do head load works for a meagre sum of rupees at the age of 15 is still living in me.I still feel the pain in my neck after my first day's work.And that feel prevent me from squandering money. But my son has no such worries.May be he is not mature enough to understand such worries.He is not worried about wasting food. May be he is not aware of the fact that there are billions of people who are not able to find a day's meal.

I hope he may be able to relate it to his life once he is old enough.