Serving the Parents

Everyone's Dream: A Happy Family.
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Parents, the only people who selflessly render their services to us throughout their lives, are the ones, whom we are unable to serve truly in our lifetime. But despite that, at every point of our lives, we find them standing beside us, eveready to help, support and guide us in any kinda way they can. The above statement has not been made just out of immense love for my parents, but it has been observed and perceived on the basis of the events happening all around us, in this fast and materialistic world of today. 

Well, first of all the notion of serving the parents has undergone a complete transformation. It is no longer the massaging of their legs and arms and obediently following every word of their advice. It is good to know that even today, kids do follow the above. But the parents' happiness lies in our happiness. Neither the parents expect us to be Shravan Kumar, nor we consider the option of imbibing the good qualities that existed in that great child. B'coz the bitter truth is: We are hardly able to carry ourselves together, so how could we imagine carrying both our parents on our shoulders !!! Additionally, we have a pre-conceived notion that making our parents live in some huge bungalow, surrounded by numerous servants and providing them every kind of luxury, would make them feel at home and help them attain salvation. But irrespective of whether these things are provided to them or not, they only wish to avoid experiencing the whims of loneliness, when the Aging takes a severe toll on their life, which was once rejuvinating and full of energy.

Parents always want that their kids may receive the best possible education and thereafter secure the best of the jobs. For that, they somehow make up their mind to send their kids abroad, far from themselves, with a hope that their kid would soon return equipped with a better life. But sadly, either the kid doesn't return (or is not able to) OR the better life which they sought after, doesn't allow him to sit back, relax and enjoy anymore. To earn more, he toils more but is unable to serve the parents, who day after day, equipped with loneliness, keep on waiting patiently and endlessly for their kids to arrive and just be with them. I find it quite disheartening that, right from our birth, our parents begin a routine of sacrifices which goes-on till the very end. From ensuring the best possible education for us, to making us go abroad; from making us settle in the new city for our Job to settling our lives after our marriage; from helping us raise our kids to being there in times of hardships, they are there for us, anytime, everytime, anywhere and everywhere. But when the tide falls on our shoulder to take proper care of them, we are far away, trying to sort out the cobwebs of our rat-raced lives. There We are, finding it difficult enough to: talk to them, respond to their queries and meet them: even once in a blue moon. As the time goes on and we become the parents of our children, may be we too would turn out to be amazing, caring and sacrificing parents but the paradox is "It's very difficult to be a good and caring Child". 

Although, just as there are good people in this world, there are good children too. But won't it be good if all the kids turn good. So, I hereby wish and pray that we may be endowed with such instincts and sense, so that we always remember our parents in our lives and care for them selflessly, just like they did throughout their life; irrespective of how successful we are, the job we do Or the status we enjoy in the society :)

Walking Together on the isle of Life.
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