From Fear to Wonder

Eva used to be a brave girl. She had child-like fears but she also had tendency to explore into unknown.


Somehow, she became fearful.

Our new house does not have close neighborhood. It is almost like a farm house as there are few farms nearby. We had wide open surrounding inviting birds and insects. Well, a beautiful, calm place to an adult. But , Eva’s fears started developing with the satting of the Sun.

We worked out this way :

Hey, look at the colours around ! How beautiful ! See, the evening Sun has coloured everything. Let us check the colour after ten minutes. Let us see which star comes out first and who finds it first.

We would sit in the porch or on the stairs, Eva, sitting in my lap and covering her body with my arms around, would get driven into the wonder and beauty of the colour play of evening sky.

Now, it is not that she has became fearless, but evenings have became a time to explore beauty of setting Sun and exploring the sky.

Same has happened with the camouflage .

One day I asked her to open the gate and she said she cannot because there was a camouflage.

So , adding dramatic excitement into my voice, I shouted : oh, where is it? What’ the colour ? Have you seen it changing its colour ? Where is camera? Let’s click few photos.

Then, step by step, we went closer to it. I encountered my fear too.

Now, it is her friend. She enjoys photos from net and rushes with camera whenever she sees a camouflage.