The Generation Before & After
Its a saturday evening, after work I was riding home saw a 45 years old man in an old cycle which has a broken seat. Its really hard to understand how he manages to sit in that broken seat and peddle for a long distance. How will he feel when he reaches home? How much ache his back will give him?
I remembered a conversation with colleagues when we were in juice shop, we discussed about how our parents were sacrificing so many things for themselves to get us what we need. My mom was a teacher and I remember her searching for a handbag for a very low price after the handbag which she currently uses torn apart that she can use it no more. But now we have too many matching for our dresses. As she was a teacher she would be needing too many sarees, but I never remember her purchasing something for herself. My dad never bought shirts, he cuts the torn collar to make it look decent and wears it. He never changed his worn-out slipper until it really tears apart. Now we are in a comfortable situation and we can satisfy our luxuries as well as our kids was what we are talking. Its true that we have never felt the feeling of sacrificing something for ourselves so we can give that to our children. Then the discussion was concluded because now we are paid surplus and more than one member earns in family which was not the case earlier. But when I saw this man's broken cycle seat, I realized we are not required to sacrifice something to feed our children is because our parents sacrificed theirs and made us stand in the position of being financially comfortable. Still there are so many families, fathers and mothers even children sacrifice something for themselves. It didn't end in the last generation, we feel like its ended because we are now comfortable. Thank you to all the fathers and mothers for all the things you have sacrificed for making us. We owe you everything and it feels bad to understand that when you were young and wanting to have something but didn't have, we can give you back what you have wished for but we can never give the same moment at that age and the happiness you deserved.
I remembered a conversation with colleagues when we were in juice shop, we discussed about how our parents were sacrificing so many things for themselves to get us what we need. My mom was a teacher and I remember her searching for a handbag for a very low price after the handbag which she currently uses torn apart that she can use it no more. But now we have too many matching for our dresses. As she was a teacher she would be needing too many sarees, but I never remember her purchasing something for herself. My dad never bought shirts, he cuts the torn collar to make it look decent and wears it. He never changed his worn-out slipper until it really tears apart. Now we are in a comfortable situation and we can satisfy our luxuries as well as our kids was what we are talking. Its true that we have never felt the feeling of sacrificing something for ourselves so we can give that to our children. Then the discussion was concluded because now we are paid surplus and more than one member earns in family which was not the case earlier. But when I saw this man's broken cycle seat, I realized we are not required to sacrifice something to feed our children is because our parents sacrificed theirs and made us stand in the position of being financially comfortable. Still there are so many families, fathers and mothers even children sacrifice something for themselves. It didn't end in the last generation, we feel like its ended because we are now comfortable. Thank you to all the fathers and mothers for all the things you have sacrificed for making us. We owe you everything and it feels bad to understand that when you were young and wanting to have something but didn't have, we can give you back what you have wished for but we can never give the same moment at that age and the happiness you deserved.
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