If You Stop Growing Then You Are Not Living Anymore
If you don't grow, if you don't improve yourself even for a day, then you are not living anymore as a human being.
This is the very characteristic of your existence as a human being — that you can grow incessantly without taking a break.
This growth is in terms of knowledge, maturity, awareness, perspective.
So even for a moment, if you think that — yes, I have achieved, I am good at this, I am the best — then you have turned yourself into a stone, as lifeless as a stone.
Because only such objects don't grow, apparently.
Man has to grow continuously.
Even on the deathbed, he should be learning, maturing more and more.
This only man can do.
Animals can't do this.
Inanimate objects cannot do this.
This — right from a young age — children should be made to understand.
That perfection cannot be achieved.
Not that you have to reconcile with mediocrity — not from that point of view.
There is nothing called perfection.
Even if you are 99.99 percent good, still you can improve, still you can grow.
Great men like Gandhiji, whom thousands and thousands used to look up to for guidance, advice, as role models — they would say:
I am also like you, striving to improve constantly,
Equally capable of making mistakes,
Like you.
But striving every day not to make mistakes, to improve, to grow.
This is their greatness.
We as parents are never willing to accept shortfalls in our children.
Even if the child does not perform academically, we blame the teachers, the syllabus — why, even the education minister for this.
Internally, you may shout at the child — but you will defend him outside.
But as you go on saying this, you will end up convincing yourself.
You will accept mediocrity.
Child psychologists would say — don't pressurize the child to be perfect.
That's what I am also saying — perfection should not be the aim.
Perfection, status quo — means then you have stopped living.
The aim should be to grow continuously, learn continuously, mature continuously.
Making mistakes is acceptable — but learn from them.
Every mistake should be turned into an opportunity to learn.
God makes you commit mistakes so that you learn from them.
Mistakes are not to feel guilty about.
They are your learning opportunities.
Turn every mistake that your child makes into a learning opportunity for him.
This is how you can contribute towards the character building of the child.
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