Watching the agility with which my 6-year-old cousin uses a digital camera made me wonder- do we reveal our professional paths in our childhood? My mom tells me I was a restless child who would only stay still if she gave me a magazine or something to browse through. And this is much before I learned to read. My younger sister on the other hand, preferred styling Barbie dolls over reading. She is a fashion designer. Another friend who loved to pull toys apart but only to put them back together is an engineer.
So I wonder if my adorable, youngest cousin and her creative photography (she has clicked her father's nostrils while he was asleep among other thing:)- I wonder if this is just a childish fascination with a camera or something more?
Here's a pic of her in action..
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As a kid, I loved two things: 1) Grabbing the tails of geckos, so they'd shed them and I'd have fun watching the tail twitch! 2) Take out the guts of all the wrist watches in our house to make sure I knew how to put them back together (I never put them back together!).
Its a good thing I became an electrical engineer and not a professional gecko tail remover!!
haha.....lol @ her shooting her dad's nostrils...i know i used to play with my dad's tools (he's a dental surgeon) ....i ended up being an engineer with practically no engineering skills...as well, may have tried my hand at being a dentist!!!! :)
I used to pull my toys apart; but I wud've been a lousy engineer :)
I wonder if she can teach me how to use it :), I wish technology would stand still for a minute till I caught up with it, I blame my parents for giving me a computer when I was 10, I had no option but to become a computer engineer no matter how hard I fought against the odds
Yoda,
`Twas brave of you to mess with geckos..I used to be terrified of them!
Moi,
I'm sure you're a good engineer:)
Radha,
lol..no wonder ure in banking instead:)
Suramya,
I can barely understand comps myself...my router has been collecting dust because I don't know how to install it((:
Didi,
Honestly, you are an excellent writer, no nepotism involved. I really wish you wrote for the NY times; you would have been my favorite to read every now and then...
But I thought about this article...it makes sense :)
wow!!
makes me think tooo!!
though i would not agree to the thought..
would not want to. actually, but there is a remote possibility
:)
nice new format!!
Ruia,
Thank you:) Sweet of you to say that although heaven knows I'm happy to be out of journalism!
Abhishek,
Thank you..I don't know if its absolutely true, but it does seem like we betray our natural inclinations/talents at an early enough age..
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(she has clicked her father's nostrils while he was asleep among other thing:)
LOL, she definitely has an eye for the unusual, it would be a pity if she didn't take up some kind of creative photography!
But coming back to your question, I always had my nose in my books and I have continued to keep it there, having said that however, I am not sure how much of what we do in childhood constitutes a passing phase and how much of it actually reveal a professional path. Interesting question to ponder though!
Lotus,
That's true...she certainly has an eye for unusual angles!
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