My Daughter Realized Worth Of Old Green Balloon Only After She Lost New Golden Balloon

Few days back, while I was busy doing Yoga, my daughter & her new friend in Toronto were on roll. These new playing mates were sliding, screaming, jumping and throwing a green balloon to each other in the house. Just then my husband came back from office. Seeing kids disturbing my practice he blew a new golden balloon to them to divert their mind. Just as he said “here you go” both the kids gave him a big smile and my daughter hugged him saying “papa you are amazing… i simply love the new golden balloon. That green balloon was old & deflated. We were simply not enjoying our play with it”, and with this she busted the green balloon

Hearing the noise, i took a pause from my exercise and started watching that green balloon rubber lying in the corner futile and worthless. Kids kept playing with golden balloon for sometime and then there was another sound “bhoom”… the golden balloon was gone. I witnessed the sadness in the eyes of my daughter. She lost her shiny new golden balloon and was in tears. And that moment I heard something unexpected. She said, “i wish i had my favorite green balloon with me”

There’s something about the nature of human beings, right? We never seem to fully understand just how good something is, unless of course we’ve lost it forever.

But when we were with that thing or person, it wasn’t good enough. We had kept our options open, waiting for something or someone ‘better’ to come along.

Our mind always keeps pondering and we felt we deserved something more, someone way better. We could never see what we had, just how good that thing or person with us was.

And once we let go of that favorite balloon, toy, person, health, job, show our ignorance instead of appreciation, treat them harshly and for granted instead of cherishing the moments we are getting with them, don’t spare time in the name of busy schedules and changing priorities every now and then and if this is not enough rub them off with our ego and control. And then a moment of realization comes. Bigger the loss bigger is pain.

Start loving the small things and people that you have in life and under any circumstances protect your Family, Friends, Love, Health & Your Passion. For you will realize their true worth only when they are gone!

Stay happy & Stay blessed!