Unbridled Emotions!

Last week, when I went for that oh so adventurous night-trek to Scanda Giri, due to my poor nocturnal eye-sight, I went straight through bushes. After a couple of minutes, when I got a breather to check how affected my calf muscles are after the incident, I spotted two dots spaced exactly by some distance to throw an impression of snake-bite. Being a timid and a faint-hearted guy I am, I was scared to death and felt that those would be my last minutes. Even the well experienced guide's could not assuade me to think positively. After half an hour, I started to feel dizzy and though it has got nothing to do with the thorny-snake bite, I felt for sure those are my final few breaths. Instead of panicking(Oh, a very good situation handler I am - though I am scared to death), I thought out what to do in those final few minutes. How much ever I focussed, only ONE thing came to my mind. That stark revelation was just the kind of thing I wanted in my life. It told me how much I really take those things for granted, that I should never have ignored in the first place. It told me how much I take my father's love for granted!

Imagine the struggle a father goes through when he sends his son for higher studies to far off places just so that the son gets what he wanted, even though the father can't leave the son. The father thinks 24X7 about how to enrich his son's life and the son doesn't even care to call him once a week! If in case, the son has a girl friend(fortunately or unfortunately, that's a different story), the amount of time he devotes to his dad would be around 2-5% of the time he devotes to his career and girl friend put together. Everytime, the father sees an article in the newspaper talking about recession in IT industry in a remote country like Sumatra, he starts to get worried about his son's career being threatened. This is the kind of unconditional love that the fathers have for their sons. But still, sons show their irritation when fathers show that extra amount of care that they think their sons deserve.  

I am not arguing that sons do not have love towards their father. What I am saying is, they do not express it and put their father son relationship in jeopardy! What I am saying is, tell your dad how much you love him before it's too late! Tell him everything that you always wanted to tell but could never tell because of one or ther other reason! Let nothing come in between! May be after a couple of decades when you are in your dad's position, don't let a situation come, where you regret for treating your father the way your son is treating you now! 

Note: If you don't agree with what I have written here, either you are the one true son every father wants to have or you don't have the guts to accept what you are.