All throughout my childhood I used to find it terribly annoying whenever a relative or family friend used to see my and exclaim 'Oh my tum kitni badi ho gayi ho (you're all grown up)'.
I always thought..."ya, obviously, I'm not gonna stay a kid forever...are you like stupid or something?"
But now that time seems to be catching up with me and my friends and colleagues have kids... I have often found myself proclaiming the same thing.
It is indeed a magical thing when you see a tiny baby of a few month, unable to move away from her mother's arm, and a few months later, she is standing on her own two feet bravely facing the world with a multitude of expressions on her darling face.
"Oh my, how did you grow up so much.... so soon?"
