Hi, I am Vaibhav Jain, an enthusiastic learner, cyclist and writer; basically, from Delhi and settled in Bangalore, working with a prestigious pharmaceutical company for the European market. On the qualification front, I completed my MBA from IMT and my Diploma in international marketing from NMIMS. My evergreen passion is to explore my unearthed potential with every new day and try to develop an updated version of myself, slow but steady. In the last couple of years, I have moved to spirituality, which drastically fueled me with immense pleasure and peace and got me closer to that divine power with every passing moment. This incarnation enlightened me with the wisdom of looking inside for solutions and peace instead of searching in this materialistic world. The equanimity within the mind, body, and soul has been instrumental in discovering the real me, and I obtained the real meaning of happiness. After establishing a connection with divine power, I started working on the things that were seeded way back in my subconscious mind, but because of the uncontrollable traffic of irrelevant thoughts, I could not get clarity. Way back in 2001, when I developed a divine connection with books, starting with fiction, Biographies, Self-help, and mythological, a desire to write a book developed in my subconscious mind, but “what to write” and “how to write” were a few questions that have never been answered. I never had clarity on the topic, either. Neither was I an expert on any topic, nor did I have any unique experience to pen down. I had the impression that to be an author or writer, one must possess expertise and immense knowledge. So, with this mindset, I diverted myself on the never-ending road of developing myself in any random direction. I always had a philosophy of moving forward in one direction, even when the path is unclear. I believe the path will get clearer only when you move forward, and with this thought, I kept reading and developing for the author in the future. God always rewards faith and patience. Similarly, I received rewards when I became a father, and my son turned four years old. Keeping the suppressed desire to be an author, I started narrating him bed stories from books. Initially, the intention was to keep him away from electronic devices and develop a strong bond between father and son, but unconsciously, this exercise became mandatory. Instinctively, my son developed a habit of listening to only my stories. Finding no other option and feeling ultimate love in his quite stubbornness, I could not find any reason to deny his ask. Now, the situation was until he would not listen to a story, he would not sleep. In multiple instances, when I became late to come back from the office or on any other occasion when I was not with him, he started having difficulties sleeping without listening to the story. At the same time, he developed tendencies that no story must repeat. He immediately would reject the story if he had listened to it earlier. I had to think creatively and knit a new story daily to meet this condition. But consciously, I also did not restrain his desire; that was pleasurable and relaxing to me, too. After the entire tiresome day, the moment I lay down next to my son and read him the story, we fell asleep within a few moments. As he grew older and turned five, he started attending preschool, where he was exposed to a real-world dimension. He witnessed innumerable new things, activities, people, and environments. Every day, he came back with new queries and curiosity, and my established habit played a pivotal role in helping him understand and disseminate new learning and moral values. He could absorb any new thing or message through this bedtime story. I have woven these two aspects into one thread and started reading his moral story. Whatever the message and learning I want to disseminate to him, I would knit a story based on that topic and read it to him. I had designed a fictitious character for him named “Dumbo”. And almost all my stories revolved around Dumbo in imaginary or real situations. There were plenty of cases when he made some mischief, and after reaching home, his mother, Vani Jain, called me into the office to brief him about the mischief he did in school. I used to instruct him not to scold or punish him categorically. My strategy was to make him realise his mistake; stories helped me drastically. I used to knit a story on a similar plot and read him the story on the same situation, where Dumbo faced the situation (which used to be the actual situation of his school/home) and how he should have reacted/behaved in that situation ideally. Within no time, he would realise that he had also faced a similar situation, but how wrongly he had reacted. Automatically, he would realise his mistake and promise me not to repeat this. This phase of my life continued when my second 5-year-old son insisted I recite the new story that was a real-life story, and one day after completing my MLD-10, I still cooked new stories daily. After my story, he will only sleep. Developing new stories daily was demanding and hectic, but hidden pleasure in this pain established a lovable bond among us. Not only this, but kids also keep away from mobile phones and TV and learn new moral lessons. Rewinding to the era of pre-MLD, when I used to recite stories to my first kid, I unknowingly set the stage for a new era of my life. As Duggu, my son, used to listen to new stories daily, I had to cook something new. Otherwise, he would reject the story then and there, and it would be pretty challenging to develop a new story every night after the tedious day. To overcome this challenge, I started noting down the ideas and plot of
