10 things my 7-year-old son worries about…

1. What if President Pratibha Patil is made the Prime Minister of India after her term expires?

2. Poor Pluto. After it was stripped of planetary status, what changes came in its atmosphere, rotation and revolution?

3. What if due to some reason Mercury and Venus are also stripped of their planetary status. Then won’t Earth become the first planet from the sun? Can that make things a bit hotter?

4. Is Hrithik Roshan real or is he just another fictional character like Tom and Jerry?

5. Army ants are planning to migrate from Africa to India. Generation after generation will settle closer and closer to India. Then they’ll hitch rides on birds and planes. They’ll get onto elephants and buffaloes to get across rivers. For some strange reason, their ultimate destination is India in general and Bangalore in particular.

6. If I somehow manage to live for a billion years, won’t I die when the Sun explodes?

7. Why can’t my grandmother give me company in my old age?

8. There are currently more believers than atheists in this world. Tomorrow if there are more atheists, then will God cease to exist?

9. People say India will become a Superpower tomorrow, but is it at least a Power today?

10. Marriage looks to be too tough to handle. So like many small boys he’s decided not to get married and definitely not to have kids.

And two things he’s not worried about…

The expanding universe and the ultimate fate of the universe
Doesn’t that mean much more space for everyone as the population increases?

Global warming and the rise of oceans
Bangalore might finally get a beach!

© Sunil Rajguru

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