They are a miniature island in the infinite oceans where the norm is the raging storms. Yet the Sindabad desire to roam these watery ways stretched up to the very horizon is strong enough. And after every tempestuous adventure, or even pleasant excursion, that small little island, however long lost it may appear, always appeals. Yes, parents are the Ithaca of each of our forays. Always welcoming, forever fostering!
July 24 apparently is the National Parents' Day. Much deserved for sure! Actually, every day, even when we are grown-up, is the parents' day. This bond is a natural fix. Better than any fevicol. It nurtures, moreover, while binding. Like a lubricant that keeps the machine going, however much rickety.
They give us the very life, the very values that make us. The sacrifices they make for us are infinite, beginning with the lack of sleep in our babydom to the sleepless nights worrying over our well-being. Even when a child is wayward, parents alone never give up on him/her.
Despite all disagreements, every disappointment, each distraction, any deterioration, this is the only tie that knows no divorce. The parental woe is a heart-ache you understand only when you yourself attain the parent mode/mould. The parent feel, in brief, is so soothing that even an ultra-modern DINK couple wants to be a pet or a plant parent!
In the mobile world today, ambitions take wards way away. Aging parents, left alone, need NRIPA (non resident Indians' parents association) or an old age home. No wonder, a socially aware billionaire like Ratan Tata has thought of a new and much needed venture named 'parent pals'. It gives the senior citizens a young assistant who in return gets a good pay package. No wonder, I would like to repeat at the end what this opinion piece began with, yes, parents' day is forever.
Pratima@ So strong is this bond that great poets had to begin their magnum opus, be it Kalidasa's "Kumarsambhav" or Milton's "Paradise Lost", with a reference to it. Every which way, forever IS the parents' day.
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