That day I was talking to one of my patients. He was a young guy of 25 years. After his examination was over, I casually asked him what his father does for a living...
He answered,
"He has done a lot for us Sir. Now we have asked him to take rest.. My mother expired long back when we were still too young... I don't even remember her face... Whatever we are today, it's just because of him... He has done his part, now it's our turn to do ours. Now we try to have our own source of income and I hope he will be able to enjoy a better life !!!"
You know, his reply was totally unexpected, but it created such a heart warming feeling that I feel short of words to express it properly..
Same day I had my clinic at my hometown Morigaon. After finishing my duty at my workplace at Guwahati, I reached there at around 4 pm. In the evening we had a marriage invitation at Nagaon, which is around 40 kms away from our house. Actually one of my relative was getting married... As I was likely to become late after finishing my patients at my chamber, my parents left early for the marriage. At around 7.30pm, I started my journey with some of my relatives. As I reached the marriage hall, I noticed maa and papa with the bridegroom. Papa was telling something and both the bridegroom and my mother were happily responding with smiles. Yes, they seemed to be much happy and it somehow reminded me of the same boy that I met in the morning. Yeah, these 2 are the persons for whom me, my younger sister and brother could see the light of this world. Whatever we have achieved till date, we mostly owe them. And whenever we do something good and our parents become happy, it invariably brings us immense pleasure...
At 25, that boy was around 8 years younger to me, but the irony is that personally I have not been able to do the same till now.. May be my parents won't like the idea to take rest leaving aside their activities, but I have never been able to ask them to relax leaving all the responsibilities upon me !!!
Whatever the boy is trying to do for his father, it might be an example for all of us. I am not going to discuss all other factors.. May be not everyone is lucky enough to have considerate parents.. May be not everyone is lucky enough to become self sufficient to support his/her parents.. Not all are lucky enough to still have their parents by their side when they are sufficient enough to support them.. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the mindset to do something for the parents.. And last but not the least, some people, it seems, are totally indifferent towards their parents or become totally self centered towards their "new family" or may be that they even get sadistic pleasure to witness their parents suffer!!! And for those last categories of people, I don't give a damn.
Well done boy, provided all of us can somehow think like you, no parents with a ''living child'' would ever have to suffer mental agony any more !!!
He answered,
"He has done a lot for us Sir. Now we have asked him to take rest.. My mother expired long back when we were still too young... I don't even remember her face... Whatever we are today, it's just because of him... He has done his part, now it's our turn to do ours. Now we try to have our own source of income and I hope he will be able to enjoy a better life !!!"
You know, his reply was totally unexpected, but it created such a heart warming feeling that I feel short of words to express it properly..
Same day I had my clinic at my hometown Morigaon. After finishing my duty at my workplace at Guwahati, I reached there at around 4 pm. In the evening we had a marriage invitation at Nagaon, which is around 40 kms away from our house. Actually one of my relative was getting married... As I was likely to become late after finishing my patients at my chamber, my parents left early for the marriage. At around 7.30pm, I started my journey with some of my relatives. As I reached the marriage hall, I noticed maa and papa with the bridegroom. Papa was telling something and both the bridegroom and my mother were happily responding with smiles. Yes, they seemed to be much happy and it somehow reminded me of the same boy that I met in the morning. Yeah, these 2 are the persons for whom me, my younger sister and brother could see the light of this world. Whatever we have achieved till date, we mostly owe them. And whenever we do something good and our parents become happy, it invariably brings us immense pleasure...
At 25, that boy was around 8 years younger to me, but the irony is that personally I have not been able to do the same till now.. May be my parents won't like the idea to take rest leaving aside their activities, but I have never been able to ask them to relax leaving all the responsibilities upon me !!!
Whatever the boy is trying to do for his father, it might be an example for all of us. I am not going to discuss all other factors.. May be not everyone is lucky enough to have considerate parents.. May be not everyone is lucky enough to become self sufficient to support his/her parents.. Not all are lucky enough to still have their parents by their side when they are sufficient enough to support them.. Not everyone is lucky enough to have the mindset to do something for the parents.. And last but not the least, some people, it seems, are totally indifferent towards their parents or become totally self centered towards their "new family" or may be that they even get sadistic pleasure to witness their parents suffer!!! And for those last categories of people, I don't give a damn.
Well done boy, provided all of us can somehow think like you, no parents with a ''living child'' would ever have to suffer mental agony any more !!!
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