From Lata aaji

Dear Children

These days we meet once a month and I miss you every single day after that; however some of you meet me on the blog and that makes me happy. How happy !! you would know only when you grow old like me.

These days I often like to think about the things that make me happy. The pleasures I enjoyed have changed from time to time.But the things that made me happy have somehow remained more or less constant. What makes me happy? Priority wise it is children and children of any age. I love flowers, fragrances, stars, moon, ocean. The list is unending. It is easier to say what makes me unhappy. Anything that makes someone else unhappy or makes the person experience some kind of exploitation makes me unhappy

One of my most favourite things is poetry. Songs too make me feel happy. I often like to share some of the things with you. Just yesterday, Anilajoba and I enjoyed some of the old english songs of our times. One of them was " Just the way you are" by Billy Joel. I remembered an anecdote about the song. Bill's mother loved him immensely when he was a small baby. Bill used to go out of his way to please her and make her happy. To that she would always say " I love you just as you are" You need not bother to change at all for that. You are as beautiful as one could ever be and I love you from the bottom of my heart. Bill grew up with these words.


Later when he started writing songs he wrote

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE



Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

Here is the song composed by him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ounJsqomcv8

Lots of love

Lata aaji