To watch my child grow

Everyday I look at my two year old daughter sleeping, after I kiss her goodnight and before I kiss her good morning, and am so pleasantly surprised to note the growth every other day. The soft ball which was not so long back could fit into my palm, almost, has now reached to my waist height. She sure is going to turn out quite a tall lady. She has now started showing quite an independent mind, with her own thoughts and opinions. Although it annoys a little at times when the insists on watching the channel which nobody else wants to watch, she wants to go for a walk when no one else wants to (still remember one night at four AM she decided to get up from a week to watch her Cbeebies on the TV), what is truly amazing is that she is not apologetic about it. When she likes something, she speaks out her mind, and so she does when the case is vice-versa, irrespective of what the world around her wants her to say. She has the courage to reach out and ask those who she loves to be with her, no ego there, when she says, Papa, Baitho, emphatically pointing to the small corner near her on the sofa. I just hope, as she grows up to find that papa will not be able to sit with her when she wants him to, or that she can not always watch the TV programme she wants to, she will be able to be what she is today, never the less. Without being apologetic about her choices and embarrassed about her affection and dislikes, I hope, she may grow and become a better person than I can ever be. This is my silent prayer which goes out every night as I kiss on forehead, may she be all that I could have become and more, I for one would never want her to become a conformist. and I do pray for her to have strength to bear the solitude which oftentimes is the cost of being true to oneself. Hope she live on to be happy than to be liked. And somewhere, I do hope she will forgive me for not being able to be all that I could have become, and forgives me for wanting to do the same through her, simply on account of one reason, which is I love her so much, as my daughter and as a wonderful human being that she is.