Thursday, February 21, 2008

To Relate or Not to Relate

We humans learn to associate objects, people, situations to something that we are familiar with, half the time without actually realising it. This habit seems to start at a fairly young age, when the child is about an year old, making logical or casual connections in relation to what is seen or observed. My son is no exception. But some of them are truly imaginative. He was in the toilet carryig out his big job and silently observing, seemingly analysing what his body had created out of sheer necessity. Suddenly, his tiny brain is able to relate. He cries out to me, "Amma, nana" (banana)!!