My Actifit Report Card: June 26 2025

Hello guys, it is an amazing morning here in India. I woke up early at 6 AM. It has rained through the night, and the weather is amazing right now. It feels like living in a hill station.

I finished my morning routine and now I am ready for the day. Let's see what challenges today throws at me. Yesterday was a very boring day.

I usually do not say this but it was a borning day because it rained all day and I could not get done much. All day I sat at the nursery and when I went out to meet a client at a prestigious dental hospital and it started to rain so heavily that I could not go and meet the client despite being at the campus.

And this happened like for a few hours. I went there twice on the same day and I was stick there for like three hours. So, my day was kind of ruined.

I usually do not complain about that. I am usually chill about such things. But yesterday I had some plans that I wanted to do, some tasks that I had to complete.

But anyways, the day is gone and let's just forget about it and hope for a better today. The nursery is getting rennovated and we threw away like 300 or 400 plants that were dead, damaged beyond recovery and this took a whole day for the workers to do that.

Finally, after weeks of cleaning and changing stuff and rearranging them, repotting them, now we are done and ready for the monsoon season. Soon, I will go and buy more plants, maybe 3000 to 4000 plants and then be ready to sell them all. I am positive about the kind of response I am going to get from my customers.

It started ro rain again at around 5:30, 6 PM, and I was already, you know, in a bad mood because of the rain. I sat at the nursery, played some videos, wrote some comments on social media, tried to do some stuff, and then I was kind of bored so I just decided to go home.

While on the way home, I called my younger sister, and my nephew picked up the call, and I talked with him and went to see them. Both my sisters live nearby my house, so it is not very far. I do visit them once or twice a week.

When I went to my sister's house her kids were happy to see me. We chatted, we discussed, we made some silly jokes and laughed a lot. My younger nephew who is around two years old was happy to see me.

He was excited. He was jumping around like a monkey and I started to call him a monkey. And he was like I am not a monkey, uncle lol. And it was so fun spending time with them.

I love y nieces and nephews. I have two sisters and both of them have kids that are younger. And this is the best thing ever in my life.

It is one of the highlights of my life that my nieces and nephews spend time with me. We joke, we do silly things lol. And it kind of makes me happy and it gives some happiness to me. Not some, but a lot of happiness to me.

My nephew had participated in a Math Olympiad a few months ago and now he got his results. And I sat there looking at the results and it was amazing to see that in some of the sections he was really good and did like 100% correct and in some sections he was struggling.

But it gave me some idea about the kind of skills my nephew has. We discussed about what good he had done and what he should imprive. His performance was above average and I was happy about that.

I am not a very studious person and I am not one of those people who tries or forces their kids (or nephews) to study a lot, get great grades and be a top ranker. No, I want the kids to play. I want them to be kids.

I want them to make silly jokes and laugh and jump and you know, play a lot. I have been a very below average student all my life and I was never really keen about school. I believe that kids should not be subjected to examinations until they are like 10 to 12 years old.

I think kids need to be kids. Kids these days are so serious. I look at schools, I visit a lot of schools and talk about the environment.

I spread awareness about the environment and when I look at these kids they are so serious. They have heavy bags, and they are writing, they are studying and they do not want to go out and play. So, I feel sad when I see that.

I am sad that a huge part of our next generation of kids is sitting on a bench 9 AM to 4 PM reading, studying and I just do not like that. When I was in school, I was a below-average student. I didn't fail.

I never failed in school but didnt even top. My nephews and nephews are, you know, over-achievers and they are doing amazing in their lives, in their educational lives, and I'm proud of them, but I also want schools to focus more on sports.

I want schools to focus on the kids' health, because, damn it, kids are spending half of their day in the school and they don't get to play. They don't get to explore their creativity. They don't get to be children, and this is the problem that I have with the educational system here in India.

When I was in school, we hardly had any sports period. There was that one in the timetable, one hour in a week where we were supposed to go out and play, but that rarely happened. Some teacher would be like, oh, I need to complete my syllabus, so can I have that period?

And we would be disappointed. Or sometimes when we were ready to play, the PT teacher, that is, physical training teacher, would be absent or busy with something else, and it never happened. I, at least, never got to play in school.

I mean, I was never good at any sport, even at home. When we played cricket, I was the worst. I don't have the skills to grab balls that are thrown at a high speed. Now I think I would have been better at games that do not require a team to play. Maybe I could have been a good runner/sprinter.

One of my customers at the nursery is a mother who has two or three kids. She once came to the nursery because her kid hada fracture in his hand. He fell when he was playing and he broke his hand. And someone has told her about a plant that can heal broken bones and I gave that to her.

She went on to narrate about how her son is. The kid was mischievous and naughty and he always ended up getting fractures or getting hurt himself a lot. So she was worried and she came to the nursery to ask for that plant.

I told her how to use it and then she started to talk about how mischievous her kid is. He is restless all the time, he doesn't sit quiet, he rushes around, plays around and usually ends up hurting himself. Obviously he is a young kid and he wants to play. When I had the conversation, she told me that she and her husband were worried about the future of the kids.

Her husband wanted their kids to study well and become an officer like him. I don't have a problem with that. It's quite normal that parents want their kids to achieve greater things in life.

They want their kids to have a better life. But most parents, and I noticed, they don't know how to take care of their kids. They don't have the knowledge of how to deal with kids who are restless all the time. Kids who are curious, kids who can't sit quiet in a place.

Kids who don't know how to do stuff. A lot of parents complain that their kids don't have manners. I'm not a parent, so I don't know the struggles of a parent. But I think that parents need education.

Parents need to get educated on topics like how to take care of their kids. How to know if their kids need special attention. How to teach them, how to act with them. What to say, what not to say.

If you scold them, if you get angry in front of them, then what should you do? There are thousands of topics. Parenting is not just having babies and then controlling them. Parenting is nurturing them, feeding them.

It's about feeding them intelligence, feeding them with kindness and love. And making them a happy person. I think parents need to learn parenting. I think teachers need to learn how to teach.

And I think kids need to be told that they are kids and they are allowed to make mistakes. I think that having great marks/grades is not the most important thing in life. Being happy is important. Being kind is important.

Being street smart is important. And being a good citizen, a productive citizen, is important.

That's all for today. I'll come back tomorrow and hopefully share more about my thinking, my ideas about life, food, happiness, and of course I'll talk a ton about plants because I love my plants.

Thank you.

Good night.

Shabba Khair. Have a wonderful day.
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