The Grand Connection

  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’.

GOD is here

        The other day in my living room sitting before the T.V. set, I was watching Shereen Bhan reading out latest business news with intermittent inputs from Udayan Mukherjee interviewing a Business Honcho about contemporary trends in Stock Market, it was then that I quizzed myself, Don't these guys ever get bored of the Financial talk ? Do they never have mental fatigue ?, while trying to figure out a 1000 different ways to create more wealth, are they so happy doing all this; day after day and year after year, maybe because it’s their job or maybe even that they chose this profession only because they love Economics so much.

        Then suddenly, I was astonished at a strong realization, all these years since my birth and even before that, my father has been providing for the family, working hard day in and day out devising new ways to multiply the money and showering tender love on family members all at the same time. He has rightly put in his blood and sweat alike making the household grow from being utterly poor to fairly good, without complaining ever and always sacrificing his personal life.

        My mother following in his footsteps, in her own might chooses subtle but profound ways ignoring herself completely serving us day and night alike all these years, without even blinking and never taking a day off. Her life is a set of pains and tensions more harrowing and deeply secret, than that of my father's, she being a Woman.

        Still, my parents have never let us children to bear the brunt of the hell-fire scorching on them. They have all the while worked hard and loved us profusely. It takes infinite perseverance, strenuous hard-work and a golden heart to do, what my parents have been doing all along.

        I must admit, "God Exists on this Earth", for me it’s my parents, without a slightest doubt.


Dear Parents (my God),
                    Even if I put all my life working to serve you and love you, it is nothing compared to what you have done, to raise me, to teach me the way of life, the lessons to keep up with this world and inculcating in me the good habits and a base of a clean character you have established in me.
                    I hereby bow before you and vow to keep you happy all through your life; and will always remain under your careful eyes and make you proud by leading a righteous life.

Your son,
amit.