Devi has OS exam today. So I was accompanying her online yesterday late evening and explaining her concepts in deadlocks mutex and sorts. While we were looking into reader-writer problem (it's a classic synchronization challenge in OS), she made this observation that there were two critical sections in the reader code. We discussed the need for a minute or two. I realized that I didn't really understand or appreciate the beauty of the solutions when I was doing graduation.
While chit chatting the same came up. D was delighted to discover how quickly she could grasp new ideas, and she admitted, her voice warm with gratitude, that it was in part thanks to the way I taught her. She followed it up with her worries. Her Mamma graduated when almost anybody could make it in IT. Now that jobs in IT are drying up too fast that she will have to be extra good for the job. I gave a reality check - Mamma flunked in the first sem and scored really bad in all her exams that disheartened parents were frantically searching for a groom as soon as Mamma turned 18. It's all thanks to the unsightly appearance that Mamma could stay unmarried for a longer time.
Kiddo suddenly chimed in and said that her Mamma is very pretty and she earns to be as goodlooking as her mother. I found myself at a loss for words in that moment. All I really wanted to say was thank you—because, in a simple and unguarded way, she eased something in me that had been quietly lingering for a long time.
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