On The Way to School

Nowadays, I accompany Bơ to school most days. She always has a good selection of questions depending on who she's talking to. With Nga, it's maybe about the next trip, or about what she's going to do in the weekend. With me, it's about any random imagination.

This morning, she tried to catch a fly inside the car but failed. She then paused for a minute to think and turned to me with "what happen if flies lay eggs all inside the car"

As a normal human-being, I would never think of that reality, ever. With all the courage packed from my job interviews, I responded "it's gonna be very dirty, because, urgh, fly likes dirty things, you know"

She answered "ah yes I saw many flies on a dog poop the other day. But what happen if I slap the flies?"

"then you're gonna need to waste your hand"

"what happen if I don't waste hand?"

...

The interview continued on, until (luckily) we got to the school.

I would actually be easier for me to shut down the conversation with "forget about it, it will never happen". Well, 99.9999% it will not happen. But I'm scared of the implication that her other imagination shall never get taken seriously by an adult, and later, her supervisor. Disregarding a probability of a scenario, no matter how small, is easy. The harder part is understanding exactly why it could not happen. That's the path I want my daughters to take in the future.

On another random note, last night, I have a dream of my supervisor's feedback for my work output. It was a long one, but the only exact part that I still remember is: "almost all underestimation is from the illusion that our recently-learned HOW will resolve the WHAT that we thought the problem statement was about" Maybe us grown-ups, also overestimate our knowledge too much that we underestimate all possibilities that seems too remote.