Curator of Life
"What exactly does a curator do?" My 11-year old kid asked me. "He/ she plans an exhibition, decides the theme and what to exhibit, where to place things and how to go about conducting the exhibition, whom to invite etc." I replied. And then I went into the usual self-doubt mode. Whenever my kid asks me a question, I wonder if I know enough to do justice to the answer. What if I end up missing the important facts, and what if she makes an important life decision based on this piece of info! Ask me about the parenting challenges of a tween's mother. So we quickly cross-checked with Google and learnt that a curator finds, buys and manages valuable or rare items, learns about its history, chooses the items and decides how to display them. Now, we found the perfect answer, but I'm left with a larger question- "Aren't we the curator of our own lives?" Our life is definitely the most valuable and rarest thing on earth, and we should be the one d...