A philosophical statement but then seems so logical....Doesn't it?
I have the uncanny habit of asking the wrong questions to the wrong people at the wrong time.....Usually the people close to me suffer.....My father and my friends are the usual targets....
One of those conversations.......
Over coffee one mild winter night, I got hold of my father in a mood to talk......
Me: - "Dad, you are 50 now, you will live for another 50. What do you think your life was all about, the full 100 years?"
Before he could really understand i had a series of things to say.
I piped again: - "Papa, you have had a full life, an amazing wife, two great kids (being presumptuous helps when you are asking such questions.. :-p ). You had a good job, you are an ideal son, husband, friend and an awesome father. But 50 years from now what would you say your life was all about?"
He kept silent and looked at me for a minute. I don't know if that was look of pride or that of bewilderment but he just said, "Son, this question is not for me to answer, it is for you to find the answer on your own and I am sure you would do so when you reach my age."
Well I was not going to let him get away so easily. So I kept badgering him. "Dad, What about your answer to the same?"
He looked at me and this time he smiled. He said, "Beta, you have already answered it for yourself."
I couldn't see it at first but then i realised it. I had said, "you are an ideal son, husband, friend and an awesome father."
I loved and respected him more ever since. His life was about the people around him whom he loved rather than being about himself....
MY DAD, MY HERO, MY IDOL........................................
I love you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have the uncanny habit of asking the wrong questions to the wrong people at the wrong time.....Usually the people close to me suffer.....My father and my friends are the usual targets....
One of those conversations.......
Over coffee one mild winter night, I got hold of my father in a mood to talk......
Me: - "Dad, you are 50 now, you will live for another 50. What do you think your life was all about, the full 100 years?"
Before he could really understand i had a series of things to say.
I piped again: - "Papa, you have had a full life, an amazing wife, two great kids (being presumptuous helps when you are asking such questions.. :-p ). You had a good job, you are an ideal son, husband, friend and an awesome father. But 50 years from now what would you say your life was all about?"
He kept silent and looked at me for a minute. I don't know if that was look of pride or that of bewilderment but he just said, "Son, this question is not for me to answer, it is for you to find the answer on your own and I am sure you would do so when you reach my age."
Well I was not going to let him get away so easily. So I kept badgering him. "Dad, What about your answer to the same?"
He looked at me and this time he smiled. He said, "Beta, you have already answered it for yourself."
I couldn't see it at first but then i realised it. I had said, "you are an ideal son, husband, friend and an awesome father."
I loved and respected him more ever since. His life was about the people around him whom he loved rather than being about himself....
MY DAD, MY HERO, MY IDOL........................................
I love you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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