Babies Learning the Left and Right: A Daddy’s Dilemma
Remember when you were still a baby, still learning how to stand up and walk, with a thin, soft, and angelic hair, at peace while thumb-sucking the whole day away. The world back then was so nice to you, you could even forget about discovering the answers to all the “what” questions you’ve formulated. But of course, humanity lives through information, that’s why you had to try new things. After successfully getting yourself to stand upright, the next practical thing for you to learn was putting on your footwear.
But like any child, you always confuse the left from the right, and vice versa. You could remember how your friends back then are made as laughing-stock of all their aunts and uncles, being forced to do wild things with their footwear because of sheer ignorance about it. You too have your share of bitter memories.
Now that you’ve grown up, of course it is terrifying just to even think that your junior would end up experiencing the cruelty of your infant years, then how much more if you’d surprisingly catch his first efforts of standing up. Eventually, you would witness his first failures. You have no choice but to suffer the memory of your own infant years.
Reflecting on why failure has to be experienced, you come up with a crucial decision for your kid: The only thing that would lessen his suffering is to at least not empathize with it. Therefore, you should come up with things that would compensate for all that which you cannot do. You went to the mall to buy some silver cufflinks, looked at a variety of novelty cufflinks, then finally decided to buy the Left Right White Silver cufflinks.
Upon returning home, you immediately labeled the cuffs of your kid’s shirt. You look at him and finally feel contentment. Now, you can say that at least you’ve done something.