learning by imitation

2 maybe 3 years old, no more than that..
she was running around the park bench like it was all she wanted to do ..
the elder one perhaps about 4 or 5 years older to her was doing the same ..

coming to think of it, she was the one who started it all..
asking her younger sibling to catch her..
she would run a while stop on the other side and motion to her sister to follow ..

after a little persuasion , she decided to go for it ..
they were at it for about a whole of 3 minutes .. and then elder one stopped .. sat next to her magazine crunching 4 eyed mommy .. waiting for her sister to catch up ..

now here's the kicker ... the little one finally came around to the side where her sister was sitting but didn't take a second look at her sister , whom she was so desperately chasing for a whole 4 minutes now.. or so we thought .. me and her elder sister .. she just kept on running around the bench ..

thats when it hit me .. she wasn't trying to catch her sister .. she was just imitating her ..
apparently thats how we learn ..