Today I met a boy of around 20 yrs at the blood bank.. He came to donate blood for somebody... As part of the routine procedure, when I asked him about his relationship with the patient, he paused for sometime and then replied with hesitation,
"He is my father sir..."
I was somewhat confused.. To be true, I didn't see any reason to be hesitant to divulge the fact that the young boy was indeed donating for his own father... Yet suppressing my confusion, I asked him with a smiling face,
"You are donating blood for the first time... Are you tensed?"
He replied,
"Not at all sir... Actually my father left me and my mother when I was too young to understand anything and married somebody else... He was not at all concerned about the emotional and financial turmoil we two went through... Even after having a 'living' father, my mother was forced to bring me up single handedly... Sorry sir, I can't help, but quite often I hesitate to call him my father... He shouldn't have done this to me... Now he is ill and his other kids are too young... So it's my responsibility to take care of him... Whatever happened is just the past... After all he is my father!!!"
I felt sorry for the boy to hear all these... But then after a moment I was delighted to observe the maturity shown by that boy...
You know... That father totally failed to set an example to carry on responsibility, but his son succeeded...
I hope, his father gets well soon and realize what he missed in all these years and more importantly, hope he also learns what actually responsibility stands for!!
"He is my father sir..."
I was somewhat confused.. To be true, I didn't see any reason to be hesitant to divulge the fact that the young boy was indeed donating for his own father... Yet suppressing my confusion, I asked him with a smiling face,
"You are donating blood for the first time... Are you tensed?"
He replied,
"Not at all sir... Actually my father left me and my mother when I was too young to understand anything and married somebody else... He was not at all concerned about the emotional and financial turmoil we two went through... Even after having a 'living' father, my mother was forced to bring me up single handedly... Sorry sir, I can't help, but quite often I hesitate to call him my father... He shouldn't have done this to me... Now he is ill and his other kids are too young... So it's my responsibility to take care of him... Whatever happened is just the past... After all he is my father!!!"
I felt sorry for the boy to hear all these... But then after a moment I was delighted to observe the maturity shown by that boy...
You know... That father totally failed to set an example to carry on responsibility, but his son succeeded...
I hope, his father gets well soon and realize what he missed in all these years and more importantly, hope he also learns what actually responsibility stands for!!
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