The Giants Who Never Grew Up!

Much before I went to his house I heard the miracles done by his child; his style of expression, I was told a million times with delight, put the Tamil superstar Rajanikanth to shame; his style of walking was described as something masterly than that of Amitab Bachan; his way of laughing was, as I was told, far superior in attracting people to him, that too much more than the ultimate Rajesh Khanna in his prime; his voice was something like a heavenly mix of Kishore Kumar & K.J Yesudas; his brilliancies far surpassed those of Albert Einstein; after all we should not blame the child for all these as he was sitting on the throne of Almighty, with the 24/7 support & promotion of his parents!

When I reached there I was more than eager to see this Wonder Boy whom I had continuously been told about. Then, there he was....the wonder boy of almost 4 who hadn't been anything lesser than Michael Schumacher, Viswanathan Anand, Tiger Woods, Bruce Willies, Thomas Alva Edison, Rod Laver & Mike Tyson fused together! He came to his father running and embraced him; the father, in his turn, took him in his arms & gave a kiss. I was eagerly waiting for some miracles from the boy's side.....! Then, the father put the son down & he went running inside to my utter despair as I saw my chance of witnessing a miracle running inside the house!

His father continuously told, as he had been telling me all these days, the great exploits of his Almighty Son as we sat inside the visitors' room, looking at the garden outside. Yesterday, when he was playing, he made a DRAGONFLY lift a stone deftly, he told as if Dragonfly was the elder brother of the MIGHTY DRAGON itself! A couple of days back he stood first in the class competition for the UKG kids in drawing, he told as if the Almighty Son had won the competition beating such archrivals as Pablo Picasso, Raja Ravi Varma, Winston Van gouge, Leonardo Da Vinci & Michael Angelo in a fierce, nerve rattling competition! His wife came there with coffee & snacks to remind him what the Almighty Son did to the 3 year old, a couple of weeks back, who STOLE his eraser while he was coming jam-packed in the over crowded auto rickshaw, from his pre primary school! "He kicked him on the face that he wouldn't even dare to look at the erasers in his whole life!” she cuckooed as if her Almighty Son had boxed down the mighty Joe Frazer in the ring at the finals of the WBF heavy weight bout for the Unified World Boxing Championship!

"He understands everything in a flash that his All Knowing Teachers are dazzled with his Marvellous Performance!", she continued to marvel at the Universal Thing which ‘The Mighty She’ contributed to this world out of her merciful mind! What might it would have been if this Almighty Son was not there in this silly dwarf world?! 'Ofcourse, it would have been a much lesser place to live in without the Almighty Son', her every word & action trumpeted this line! I remembered, sitting there sipping coffee, another mother who boasted of the Extraordinary Learning & Understanding Capacity -Of All the intricacies of the world with just a look, of course!- of her son when he was barely 6 months old! Though he didn't speak at that time he knew & understood EVERYTHING, she used to tell! From listening to her continuously all the people in her area used to come to her BABY to seek the Universal Wisdom the baby possessed from the BABY's non-speaking mouth! Without uttering a single word the BABY became very famous for its wisdom in a 10sq kilometre area, at the least! I wondered, what all marvellous things & hidden Universal secrets must had been known to the BIG-eyed green pupa of the butterfly -which moved its BIG eyes whenever I moved even a little bit, standing infront of it!- which I saw on the plant I grew in my terrace garden, the other day!

All over the world, I suppose, these kids have been having wonderful & miraculous capacities, capabilities & abilities that all the persons around them, including their Ever Wondering Parents ofcourse, have been running unstoppable yarn-mills, all these decades, about the extraordinary & superhuman adventures of their tiny tots! And, people all these decades keep listening to them & they never stopped wondering & marvelling! I have seen parents & grand parents promenading carrying the 1 year old, 2 year old & 3 year old living wonders in their hands & showcasing their sons' or daughters' extraordinary divine signs and drawing truck loads of appreciation from the ordinary mortals around their Devine Baby Zones! But what I find with great disappointment & despair is that these GIANTS, who have all the knowledge of the world without even opening up their mouth & perform such extra ordinary, super human things like whistling like a bird, jumping like a frog, imitating the parents & teachers -forget the imitating never reached anywhere near the original!- climbing like a monkey, running like a kid, singing like a nursery kid, learning like a parrot etc etc never grew up & all end up as old Dick, Harry, Ram, Priya, Soumya and Just the Others as the parents and grand parents & great grand parents are/were - just one/another mortal in billions!