What You Owe to Your Parents

The people who love you the most in this world. Selflessly. Effortlessly.

The people who truly care for you, nourish you, introduce you to this world.

The people for whom you are the center of their world. Your parents!

In the fluctuating course of history, only parental love has never changed and will remain unconditional and undemanding.

Your parents spend more than twenty precious years of their life in raising you, imbibing values in you with utmost love and care.

But once you grow up and become independent, you sometimes tend to neglect your parents or no not love them as much less than they deserve.

Your parents do not demand a lot from you. In fact, they do not demand anything from you.

Their happiness depends on yours. If you are happy, they are, in fact, happier than you.

If you are successful, they are the proud parents. There is no bigger happiness for them than watching you climb up the success ladder.

Tears of happiness and satisfaction roll down their eyes when they hear somebody praising your work and success.

So, basically everything that makes them happy and proud, is related to only one person and that's YOU.

The only thing you need to do for them, is to stand by them when they find it difficult to walk alone.

Hold their hand when theirs tremble. Kiss them when their face has become wrinkled.

Just a single hug before you leave for your work/study makes their day.

Just be patient with them when they cannot hear you properly. Do not get irritated. This is the time when they need you the most.

Staying away from you chips away a tiny part of them every day because you are the parrot in which their life exists.

Don't send them to an Old Age Home. Don't make them spend their second childhood away from you because they were with you in your childhood.

They too want to be loved and looked after. You know, most of the parents in Old Age Homes don't complain, they just say that, my son or daughter has to go on and I can't be a burden for him/her.

So, it is left to you to decide how happy their old age can be. You don't need a special day to make them feel their worth. If you have never told them how much you love them, say it before it's late -  say it today and say it everyday.

Those who live with their parents, be grateful to God because not everybody gets this chance to live under the sky of their parents' love. Ask orphans and you'll know how lucky you are.

Those who are currently staying away from their parents for studies or other temporary purpose, don't forget to call your parents regularly. You will be able to hear the joy in their heart when they hear you voice.

Those who are staying away from their parents due to work or something else, make sincere efforts to bring your parents to your place or go back to their place. You're missing the most precious gift that you have ever got.

It’s better you learn it early. Because someday and sooner than you could ever imagine, you are going to be old, too.

Someone has rightly said, "You can always loose something for someone but you should not loose someone for something....because life can return that something but not that someone".

Life is to love and to be loved. Stay happy, stay blessed!