Letter one

Dearest Appa,

It’s been 30 years of benefiting from your amazingly unique thought-process, after all who I am today is in a large part because of who you are and how you think! And since Summer 2017 seems to be giving us the gift of time, I thought we should document some of our amazing (self-proclaimed) conversations.

I want to talk about things like gratitude, honesty, your love for metaphors (especially those involving roads & driving), traveling, your legendary stories that had some vague morals, your ability to encourage, and even your unending lectures on the importance of Sleeping, Eating and eXercising. (Inside joke) And I promise to semi-listen to anything else you might want to talk about!

For this season, the story that keeps coming back to me is one you told Dhanjit and I, when we were living in Babina (?). There was a king who announced a big reward for anyone who had the ability to complete a task he set out. The task: A room was filled to capacity with tomatoes, each of these tomatoes had to be transfered to another room in one night. Many tried and many filled, till one fine morning the king found that a young boy had completed it! When asked what his secret was he said he had focussed on the room that was filling up. The moral: “Don’t focus on the taks that needs to be done, focus on what’s already been done” I told you the morals were vague.

But this story keeps coming back to me as I try to walk up a five minute long escalator. Every time I look at only the next step, I climb it so easily and every time I look up at the seemingly 1000 steps ahead it seems so insurmountable, I give up. Thank you for teaching me that more often than not it is sufficient to put one foot in front of the other.

Can’t wait to hear from you!

Love, Lynma