The Cosmic Twin

Today 2 things :

As I was explaining to Juhi about the plum pudding incident, I got call from Aman in Delhi who is claimed to be very similar to me [ my cosmic twin I'm told].

Later in the evening when we got home from lifestyle, and Deepa explained to Alisha about the pink flower Alisha gets her and the concept of gratitude, I wasn't around during this explanation.

2 minutes later I explained the very same thing in the very same words.

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ALISHA ASKS 004

Last night Alisha set out to spell this fruit-



According to her and her present understanding of phonetics, it A for Aa, P for Puh and L for Luh. Her reasoning ofcourse is very good, and she is correct in spelling it so.

And like she rightly said to me : "There is no second P and an E at the end ! Why is it there ?"

And as usual, child intelligence prevailed over adult stupidity, as i sat there dithering about how someone made up the spellings earlier, and however crazy they may seem, we all need to learn them the way they are spelt.

Now its obvious that if i gave her the liberty to spell the way she wanted, no self-respecting teacher would accept that. And the reason being - "Thats the way its done"...."We cant change that"....

The way we perpetuate our own stupidity confounds me.