Ayub: Mama, I don’t want to be a man.
Me: Why not?
Ayub: I don’t want. I want to be a boy.
Me: But you’re going to grow up eventually.
Ayub: No. I don’t want to grow up. I want to be small.
Me: But when you’re a man, you don’t have to go to school anymore. You can work in an office like Ayah. Don’t you want to work in an office like Ayah..?
Ayub: …
Me: Yeah, that’s a bad example.
Ayub: At school I watch tv and eat cookies with my friends.
Me: But when you’re a man you can drive a car like Ayah. Don’t you want to drive a car?
Ayub: I don’t know how to drive.
Me: You will learn, when you’re a man.
Ayub: I don’t want to learn. Ayah can drive me.
Me: I have no further arguments. I wish I was still a small girl and didn’t have to grow up too.
Ayub: Yeah. But now you’re old.
