Just a week back I was browsing through some photos of my childhood days. And what I noticed was strange that I have fewer photos with my dad as compared to my mom. And then I started wondering that how come this happened. But then if we all stress our minds a bit, we will recollect that since childhood we are always write and talk about the hardships and great skills of our mother. Undoubtedly a mother is an integral part of a child’s life but as we know the saying goes that a bike needs two wheels to run properly, so why do we forget that even the life’s bike of a child needs two wheels to run and function smoothly and needless to say the second wheel is ‘Father’, who is also utmost important in a child’s life.
So I thought that why not “Salute The Unsung Hero Of Our Life- DAD”. There are many great saying in all languages for mothers but I have seldom seen any for a father, right? And the reason is that even though he is the one who strives hard, day and night for securing and well-being of his child’s life and future his role is a bit neglected sometimes.
A father also loves his child as much as a mother does, but then it is usually seen that dad cannot show off their emotions and hence it goes unnoticed most of the times. They are once who slog off at work so that their kids can get all the luxuries but still its often seen kids blaming their father for not giving them things. We always see that he does not have time for us but then never do we see the main reason behind him not having time for us.
He also cares and nurses his kids when they are unwell; he also gets tensed when his kids have exams or results. A father is a silent working who does everything but still does not get an credit for his deeds. When a daughter is out of home till late night, father is the one who is awake till she gets home safely.
Unlike everyone else even I had many times not noticed my father’s love, care and affections towards us. But then one day I and my sister had been to a Marathi program called ‘Ayushyavar Bolu Kahi’. And in that they have a song dedicated to all fathers who have so many things to tell and share with their kids but cannot do it due to burden of their other responsibilities. And after hearing that song we could relate all the small things that dad did and it went unnoticed by us. And after that day my sister and I decided that we will never ever hurt our dad and will automatically our respect for him multiplied.
Whenever there are problems in our life, mother is the one who gives us her shoulder to cry and cries along with us, but we can never see that even our father is upset about it, only difference is that he does not show it to us. And the reasons for this thing is firstly the society does not allow a man to cry as he is the support of the family and second and the main reason is that he wants others to be stable and be their strength of pillar so that his family can fight back with the problem and hence gulps downs his tears.
And lastly, I would like to say one thing today, which I haven’t said to my father till date, “I LOVE YOU A LOT PAA”, and will request all the people reading it also to tell your father what you feel for them before it’s too late.
And I will today answer one of the unsaid questions about my dad, which would have always thought about but kept himself back from asking ,
“Paa, Sasurala Jaataa jaataa Umbarathyawari,
Tumchchya saathi nakki yel pani majhya dolya madhe”
