in vacant or in pensive mood

With the advent of nuclear families, there is a death of good old time spent with relatives. Uncles and aunts are distant, nieces and nephews are connected through social media making us have relatives but devoid of relationship. What's happening instead is that we seek out this joint family love not by blood connections but instead with work colleagues. It reiterates the importance of relationships for the development of the self. In the pursuit of independence, we broke away from joint families, but what's happening now is that the very thing we broke away from, we seek from external people. Which is very ironic :)

There's something so soulfully peaceful in putting ones kid to sleep. You aren't boring them to it but passionately humming away some melodious songs that may or may not be in tune but as long as it's calming, it will do. It's surprisingly refreshing when the child sleeps in front of your eyes as many a times, these soft lullabies put the "hummer" to sleep instead after a tiring day. Love you Vijjy to make me feel this way. ;)