When we are born our parents are 24x7 on duty, alert all the time because as babies we have no fix schedules, we poop anytime, cry at anything, don’t know to speak, just throw fits and keep showing attitude (laughs). Still our parents make their best efforts to nurture us by giving their time, energy, money and everything else for that matter.
But sometimes even the Heroes(parents) get tired and then what? Then come the Superheroes, our Grandparents. Yes, when even the parents can’t take it anymore our grandparents save the day. Not only they have more experience of life but have also seen many babies grow up to be adults. So, they very well know how to take care of babies and kids, when the parents need a desperate break.
During our childhood, grandparents shower us with their love and blessings all the time. They play games with us, dance with us, engage us in so many activities and have all sorts of fun with us. They are also very keen about our nutrition; they constantly tell our parents to feed us with all the good and healthy foodstuffs so as to make us strong and healthy right from our formative years. Knowing how much physically vulnerable a small child is, they are very protective about us both inside and outside the house.
When we reach our teens, we have more grown-up fun with our grandparents and enjoy our Life together. By this age, we start returning the favor, we take care of their health, accompany them for health check-ups, help them with their medicines and sometimes also sneak them some fried, spicy food items and sweets (laughs), which they can’t have often in that age due to health concerns. During our teens, many a times we don’t see eye to eye with our parents on many matters there our grandparents bridge the gap and ease down the situation with their playful intervention. With their love they try to make us understand our parents’ viewpoint, putting much needed sense into us. Many times, out of sheer love they also take our side, just to keep us happy. Sometimes we don’t even agree with our grandparents, yes, such situations also come. But then we can’t always agree on all the things even with our loved ones, right?
When we become young adults, our grandparents become very old and they need more love, care and support from us, more than ever. At this stage of life, they are again physically and emotionally very vulnerable, they might never show this but it’s a fact. Hence, we must be sensible and mature enough to understand their needs and take care of the same accordingly.
By now, we start understanding and valuing the knowledge they were trying to impart to us all along and also respect their vast experience of Life. We must learn from our grandparents as much as we can and as fast as we can, before they have to leave us. Lucky are those who are nurtured, loved and cared for by their grandparents in addition to their parents. The bond that we share with our Grandparents, I call it ‘The Grand Connection’.
