“Shree”

Chi. Aayush la aneka ashirwad.

Happy Birthday. Many Happy Returns of the day. Mottha Ho!!!

Today is your 2nd birthday. Last year also, I had written you a letter. I am once again

requesting your Papa to preserve all these letters and hand it over to you when you

become ‘BIG’.

Last few days, I have been telling you to speak atleast five words namely Papa,

Mummy, Aaba, Aaji & dada. Jokingly I have threatened you that unless you learn to

speck these five words, we will not celebrate your birthday. ☺

I would like to share one thought on your birthday. I would quote two thoughts, one

for your 1st birthday & one for your 2 nd birthday. I am aware that it is difficult to

digest, understand and implement these thoughts but you should always try.

1) Silence & Smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems &

Silence is the way to avoid many problems.

2) It takes around two years to learn to speak…but it takes LIFE Time to learn “what

not to speak, how & when to speak etc. etc.

Last year i.e. 10-06-2010 to 10-06-2011 vanished very fast. You have grown big by one

year. Now let me share with some of the highlights of the last year.

1.0) We celebrated your 1st birthday at Dahisar residence. Your Aatya (Devyani) had

come with her kids namely Aryan & Neil. She had brought nice birthday cake. Aaji was

also present. I do not attend any functions but your mom desperately requested me to

attend the birthday party. Your Mom & Papa had fought (as usual) on some trifle issue.

I attended the function mainly to bring about reconciliation between them. (I have been

doing this on a regular basis over last few years.☺) I took few photographs on the said

occasion.

2.0) Your Kush Dada was sent to Raigad Military School soon after your birthday.

3.0) I wrote in last letter that by the time you read & understand, I may not be around

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and it is quite likely that you ‘may’ be interested in knowing me as a ‘person.’ Hence

I decided to write my ‘Last Lecture’ which would enable you to understand me and my

‘Generation’. I am happy that as promised, I have written my Autobiography titled

Spandane – The Last Lecture. It runs into approx. 400 pages. I can not visualize /

imagine your reaction. By the time you read & understand it, I may not / should not

be around. Let me share some thoughts on my exit from this world. I have been

requesting GOD for over 25 years to lift me on the occasion of my 60th birthday.

(i.e. 15-05-2011) but God has not obliged me with the request. But I will continue with

my prayer because I know that in the confrontation between the Stream & the Rock,

The Stream always wins …. Not through Strength, but through Persistence. I have

already written Open Letter to God to share thoughts on my exit.

4.0) Your health never posed any major threat during the year. However you sustained

head injury due to your Papa on Saturday, 13-11-2011. Your papa was upset with your

naughtiness and literally threw you on back seat of the car. You sustained head injury

and required few stitches on your forehead. It caused panic situation for all of us. Aaji

and I rushed to Dahisar. The reason behind the entire episode was once again rift

between your Mom & Papa. I have taken few snaps to record the event. I scolded your

Papa & Mummy for such ongoing rifts time & again. The main reason of accident was

irrational action by your Papa in his angry mood. You will have to control your Anger.

5.0) Now let me say few words on your personal traits discovered during the year:

5.1) You easily get angry on any matter happening against your mood. The Anger trait

has been inherited by you from your Papa & Mom.

5.2) Acting talent (slightly bending the head while talking, sparkle in eyes etc.) has been

inherited from your Mom.

5.3) Stubbornness, hyper activity match with your Kush Dada. Again inherited from

parents.

5.4) You are good at making observations of things happening around you. In other

words, you are good at ‘copying’ but unless you know where & when to ‘paste’, you

will become a laughing stock.

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5.5) You have innocent smile on your face. SMILE: - ‘S’ets u free, ‘M’akes u special,

‘I’ncreases your energy, ‘L’ifts your spirit, ‘E’rases all your tensions. So keep Smiling.

Preserve that smile. ☺

6.0) On Wednesday, 01-06-2011, your Papa had serious road accident while going to

Office. He was badly injured. The other person was more seriously injured and was

hospitalized. After completing all formalities he was released on bail at 2100 hrs.

We hope that now atleast he will learn out of mistake. (He has already made many

mistakes and yet to learn. But nothing wrong in expecting.)

From June 2011, admission has been secured in Play group for you. I have taken over 250 photographs of you and recorded over 75 videos in last one year.

All your snaps and videos have been saved in my computer and I am sure that you may

also be interested to see your childhood photographs when you grow up. I have created

this treasure for you.

God bless you.

Aajoba !!!!!????

10-06-2011

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