Already a teenager

"You don't understand my life"

- Sanjana, trying to fight off my attempts to have a conversation

I knew there was something wrong

Sanjana was told about the spinning and rotation of the Earth at school.

That evening she informed me, “Baba, the world is moving and I feel dizzy.”

Make up your mind

“Baba”, Sanjana asked one day. “How much longer before I go to kindergarten?”.

“One hundred days”, I did a bit of rounding.

“A hundred days!”, she exclaimed. “I would be dead by then.”

“Sanjana”, I tried to put the timelines in perspective with the expected lifespan. “A hundred days is nothing.”

“So I will go to kindergarten tomorrow?”, she asked.

“No, Sanjana. Not tomorrow", I said.

She wouldn’t give up. “But you just said that a hundred days is nothing!”.