Glad!

It has been already said many times before, by not just one. But I realized the real depth of it only late. And what a rare and beautiful thing it is! "Matchless and ageless!" I should say. Fine! Enough about introduction! Its about making others happy.

There are so many events good or bad, that happen in everyone's life. But there has to be something worthy of each of our lives. Isn't it? And without any lump in my throat, I accept what I am - No greater than any other, who is here now and won't be there later. If you ask me the moments when I was really happy, it would be the occasions when I received a bounty of gifts [that still continues] from my parents and siblings and the extremely rare occasions when I did some 'achievement' that made them happy.

"He is always a studious boy, you know?", I recollect the pride in my brother's voice, who makes me earn every grain of appreciation from him. And I haven't got more than one tilldate. The extreme happiness and as a result, couple of drops of tears that glittered in the eyes of my parents, when I 'achieved' something - "How can I get a prize greater than that in my lifetime?", I thought.

After a bout of 'poor' performance which resulted in a better mindset, came those wonderful moments again - The weak smile of my wife and her gripping hands, after delivery, the joy of my parents seeing my son and that special smile and that lightning of a blush that my son exposes, when I do something that he likes the most! The beauty is that, I am not doing such things always [lame excuses] and often receive it when I least expect it. Being pushed to a point where I stand just a witness to those happier moments, happens mostly. Thats fine. Very rarely do we go beyond the state of emotions.

What do you say?

 

Very many thanks NandiniMithun, for your first and nice feedback to this post. Thanks for your appreciation too. -rgs

 

Thats how it has to be. Very correctly said, Viswa. But in today's world, even the dear ones feel that they could have received more than whats given. Fine. Before pointing to others, let me correct myself Thanks a lot for your nice feedback. -rgs

 

This is one of the posts that I thoroughly enjoyed to write, Sunitha. There were a lot of things that form and dissolve like a pattern when viewed from a kaleidoscope in the night. I aimed for that, but realize that it ended up too much on a personal note. But, your feedback made me real glad. Really grateful, thanks a lot. -rgs

 

Very true SudhaKrishna. Sometimes we feel that we are not that worthy to the extent our parents cherish us so much. Perhaps, we need to learn that lesson - trust your kid so much so that they don't go astray [if only they are aware of the trust, there is no chance that they fail]. -rgs