When a child is born she first snuggles in her parents arms. The tender and gentle love of her parents showered on her during her toothless days is her safe abode. They nurture her, feed her, and understand her slightest woe without her saying a word. Slowly, she grows up into a fine lady and now she walks by herself. Each step is a culmination of her parent’s values and her own life experiences. She remembers her parents say, “Each step you take should be paved through hard work and honesty.” She is an individual now and takes her own decisions in life. She keeps moving, tolling and struggling. She goes to the extent that she forgets that she is also someone’s child.
And then one day she looks at her father. Once her
hero, now old who is in no condition to run after her, to feed her or play with
her. Yet his heart goes out for that young child who now has a mind of her own
as he knows that after a day’s work she must be hungry. His physical strength might
have reduced not his love. And when the lady looks at her father she feels that
in the bargain to achieve fame and success she had forgotten her family. She tries
to extend her hand, share her feelings but nevertheless.....
Her lifeline, her hero, her father has moved on to a life filled with bliss. As for the girl she
is alone to fight the world once again. The world seems an illusion. She asks God for just one more day when she could just sit and talk to her father, she
could tell him how much she cared and loved him. One last chance but that chance
is eluded.
In the bargain of life and death she is deprived of those
few hours. She whines and cries to numb the pain and the hurt to heal but she
knows nothing would ever help again. And then comes the realisation.
She reminisces when her father taught her the values that
she stands for today. She remembers his scolding and love. She realises that
even in the discipline was love hidden. And even in death he made her realise
that love is all.
Time gone is last forever. Every day we awake and move in
the fast paced world not to be left behind. We pick pace with competition and
struggle because we cannot compete destiny. We talk about goals and dreams that
include our loved ones. But with whom would we share them if our near and dear
ones are not there to share our life. Time is the most precious element. And time
never returns. We know this eternal truth but how many of us understand it. We take
it for granted that our loved ones are going to be with us. We do not want to
face it that there would be day and time when they would leave us. And when they
leave us we ask for those few hours with them. But we forget that we were flourished
with time which we never respected. It is to teach us a lesson that we must
start valuing our relationships no matter how stray they might have gone. Life is
too short to hold grudges and indeed too small to struggle for petty things and
forget the love.
Tell your parents that you love them. Tell them you care because
nothing lasts forever. Not time, not people… what is there is now… don’t miss
it…. You might never get a second chance.
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