Dear son,
Today as you see me as an old man, I request you to understand me.
You get irritated if I wear a soiled shirt or if I scatter food when I eat. Remember it was I who taught about cleanliness to you.
You feel bored when I repeat the same things again and again a hundred times, but when you were a boy you slept hearing the same story again and again everyday and I never felt bored.
If I don’t take bath even for a day out of tiresome, you feel angry, but you enjoyed those days when I used to run around you to give you a bath.
I understand that the new technologies don’t get into my brain so easily. Please give me some time to understand them. Don’t get annoyed.
When my feet tremble to walk just hold my hands and help me to walk. Didn’t I teach you how to walk when you started walking?
When we are conversing with each other, sometimes out of confusion I come to the same topic again and again. Don’t get impatient with me. It is not important what I talk with you; I just feel that I get more of your time for me. Is it wrong?
Don’t think I am pinpointing what all I did to you in your childhood. When I am not feeling good, just comfort me and make me feel your warmth. That is what I want.
Someday I may pray “God give me early death”. Don’t mistake me and get angry. It is because of the old age and the sufferings that make me pray like that. One day you may also do that!
For all the things I have done to you, till this day I haven’t asked you anything in RETURN. Today I am asking a little bit of PATIENCE, LOVE, ADJUSTMENT and above all a little of your TIME for me. Will you give? That is more than enough for me to survive and be happy.
Ever loving
DAD
Courtesy: Sri Ayyappa Sangam, Trichy
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