Stumped... 😊

One evening after dinner I am doing the dishes - and there are loads. The kid has missed me through the evening - with me staying back longer in the office and all that.

After some two-three trips into the kitchen to check on me, the five year old finally appears to have made up his mind and asks, "Mum, how long are you planning to hang out with the dishes?"

"I'm not hanging out with dishes. I'm just doing them because they need to be done."
I am of course irritated.

"But how long? I want you to be with me," says the kid. And one cannot be more straightforward than that, I admit.

"I'll come when I'm through. Doing dishes is not the aim of my life."
I'm more than irritated by now - not so much with the load of dishes, but with my inability to be with the kid.

Looking at me with frank eyes, the kid goes, "Then what IS the aim of your life, mum?"

I am stumped.
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