Wonderment

Is when a toddler who can barely speak words, walk-dances the street outside your home, and gets excited when he looks at the daylight moon.

It is as if moon is his friend he wants to converse with, or that ball he could play with.

He stretches his arm out in the moon's direction and tries hard to ....Catch it!

Yes, he thinks he can catch the moon! Yet, when the faraway `ball' stays elusive, he does not feel disappointed. He continues trying.

And with no sense of failure whatsoever, he half-screams in delight. No words to aid his amazingly expressive ecstacy. No sulking over not being able to get what he wanted. Only pure joy of knowing that the other exists out there. That friend. That Moon.

He holds no reserve in communicating to you about his `friend' though. He looks at the moon, at you and nods his head in a way that you understand it just right.

Sometimes, life's lessons come in packages a foot and half high.