Hey reader,

Love you dad! – NS

It’s 16th of June, and it’s a day to go for Father’s Day. Father – we all know how important is this word in our life. The days can be dark, the nights can be scary, but one person beside you will never let you feel insecure even in the darkest of times. You know who he is – Your Father.

Imagine the time, when we were toddlers. We used to crawl and sit wherever we wanted to. But, if you notice, there are numerous points in our house at low levels or low platforms under cupboards, tables, glass pieces, etc., which if gets stuck to the toddlers, can cause huge damage for the lifetime. We can notice those now, but many of us won’t know how tiring and struggling task it was for our father’s to remove them/ clear them so that we don’t get injured.

This example is just the tiniest example, but it tells how a father saves his child from all the future threat and problems, right from the childhood and just never stops or counts them.

It’s funny and sad, that when we grow up, we just start to ignore all his safety tips, advices and feel burdened up if he cares for us. He asks us not to go with those friends, and we disagree and later, just get hurt as those friends turned out the same way, our father predicted. He cautions us with almost every threat that we will be going to face, and more likely being a rebel millennial, ignore every single advice of our father.

What not bad do we call it – generation-gap, over-caring, over-protective, bla, bla, bla.. and yet he cares. We often understand and value the efforts of our mothers like making food for us, serving us great meals and lunch boxes for schools. But how much do we value the effort of our fathers of taking us to bus stops or schools everyday? How much do we value of providing each and every facility from good society, good environment, good education, meeting our all demands and the list continues.

Our father is our first hero – who just plays the heroics in every thing he does (whether it be feeding us with spoon like an airplane landing in our mouth), our first team mate – who teaches us how to play any sport for the very first time, our first story-teller – who reads us a bed time story every night in the childhood and most importantly our life-long friend and adviser – which we always forget in the middle.

I can guarantee you, even today, if we go to our father’s and tell us what is troubling us – he will tell us a way. It could be about anything – love, friendship, career, money – anything. Because, he is not a father, he is an encyclopedia – God has given us.

It does makes feel sad, how we changed our relationship with the best present we got with our life – our father. Now when he is ageing, and finds things to keep moving smoothly – we get irritated. If he is not able to walk fast, we talk rudely. He tries to put the things in place which we have scattered, and after that if we not find something – first, never appreciate his effort in clearing up our mess and second, just go mannerless. He tries his best to keep up with current technology and when he gets stuck – we again just go impatient and go like “Come on dad, its so easy, leave it – you won’t be able to do it”, etc., and I can guarantee that we would have said this to our father’s once in our lifetime at least.

That person, doesn’t even complain a single time about our numerous daily mannerless language, tone and disrespectful attitude. Yes, I know you would say that no, I am not like that bad, but, ask yourself – haven’t you done anything similar to these ever? Were you able to truly reciprocate the care and love like your father and asked nothing in return?

When our father grows old, there are very very few things he asks from us, namely – time and love! He starts to become the child now and trust me, its the time that you have to become father! My father, right from childhood used to say this famous quote – “Child is the father of man.” and now I understand it’s meaning.

Spend an hour or two daily with your father, keeping aside your phone and your life. Just talk to him, listen to him. Crack jokes, laugh, cry but spend the time. Take him to his favourite places on weekends, or to his favourite trips. Play a game of carrom. I think you better know whats the best way to spend time with your father. But now, its my request, just go to your father – hug him and say you love him, as I know you do but it’s just the time to show it as well.