The child within....

Yesterday evening, I saw a child within... my wife.. It was a very sweet experience that I wanted to capture and time freeze it.. The only way I could think of doing that was to write about it. Its not often that I get a sneak peak preview into her child within..
It was about 8PM sunday evening when we had just finished watching a vey nice hindi movie and were getting ready for dinner. As we were browsing the channels, we found that SET(Sony Ent. TV) was airing Dilwale Dulhaniyan.....(DDLJ) for the hundredth time, I guess. By the time we found that out, it was already 2 hours into the movie and Shah Rukh was running around the mustard fields with Kajol in the country-side Punjab singing away to glory.. My wife being a die-hard fan of Shahrukh since her pre-teen years and DDLJ being her all-time favourite movie, she could not believe herself that she did not know about the airing of this movie. She can recite every dialog in that movie and still watch that movie from beginning to end without a break. She was so over-whelmed with the fact that she missed nearly 2/3rds of her all-time favorite movie, tears started trickling down her eyes, as I was watching her blaming me for not letting her watch THE movie. It took me a full 10 minutes to console her. It was one of the best 10 minutes of my life when I really got to see the little child within my dear wife that was so mad at me for making her watch the other movie instead of her favourite one.
Not that she had not watched that movie before atleast a few dozen times. Not that either of us knew that DDLJ was being aired that evening. Not that I conspired secretly to not let her watch DDLJ. It was the child within her that could not accept the fact that she missed watching THAT movie.. She had to let her emotions out somehow and it came out as her child within, peeking out through those eyelids as tiny little teardrops. It was so cute to watch her express her emotions in the way she did, which proves without doubt that it does not take a lot to wake up the child within oneself. Emotions like these should be let out and not bottled up. I have come to realize that we should nurture the child within oneself for moments like this.

A potential christmas present for my wife - $25
The movie we watched - $1
The movie we missed - PRICELESS...

I am waiting for more priceless moments like these..