But we will Play Together in the Park

She was angry with her mom. How dare she take her not let her play with her phone! As the child, she owns her mom’s phone. How does she not know that?

‘Do you want to go to the park and play?’, asked her mom.

‘No’, she said firmly. ‘I want to play on the phone.’

‘But we will play together in the park.’

‘But I didn’t finish my game on the phone.’

Her mom would always forcefully take her to the park and she would always hate it initially. At the end, she would always be happy to have gone to the park.

Today, when she was forcing her own child to go to the park with her, she finally understood how difficult it was for her mom to take a reluctant child to the park. She was stubborn, so it always took a lot of effort on her mom’s part to convince her. All her mom wanted to do was to keep human interaction going in her child’s life.

She had been successful at that too! Maybe as a result of her efforts at least partially, she was very successful in human relations. She had a lot of friends and a few good ones. She had many friendly colleagues in the workplace. Wherever she went, she made friends right away.

She thought of these when she was trying to convince her daughter to come with her to the park. Her daughter was also very stubborn. History repeated itself. Characteristics were the same, though the characters changed. Sentences were the same, though the speaker’s changed:

‘But we will play together in the park.’

‘But I didn’t finish my game on the phone.’