Happy diwali to all the readers, this is diwali night and I am home for the festival. Yester evening I happened to pass by an old friend's house I saw his father was fixing diwali lights. he has two children but till yesterday none of them came for diwali celebration. I felt bad, I can understand how nice our parents feel when we turn up for the things like this.
This evening I went to my terrace to see diwali lights. Our's is an old city. Some of the buildings date back to Mughal period. From the terrace of my house I can see almost whole of the city. It was a spectacular scene. electrical lights were confident to defeat the dark, they stood with their head held high. Candles and traditional earthen lamps were also doing their bit, though scared of winds, they were encouraging their electrical brethrens. I observed, old havelis, high and magnificent, were dark. No earthen lamp was smiling on the walls. No candle was braving the wind and no china made electrical light was flip-flopping. Just because inmates of these grand hawelis deserted them and moved to the new houses to leave them to stand alone in dark like the children of those parents who left them not to return.
Globalisation hai bhai. Parents are cheapest and most reliable security guard.
ReplyDeleteHappy Diwali... i could say more but there is a whole lot post of complains on another blog.
ReplyDeleteYeah..it feels bad when our children turn against us. when we want that in vacation specially in diwali which is known as fest of lights to come home n spend it with us, they r indeed busy with their own family and children. Nowadays teens r so mordernised that they dont have a second to spare with their parents who nurture them throughout only to expect a lil care from them at their old age.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, if we see to the other point of veiw, some parents send their child to boarding/hostel to deal their life on own satisfying themselves that it ll be good for dem but neglecting the part that it hurt the emotions of the very child. they are deprived of their childhood. so, if we see both are equal on their side. they shoud value each oders age as well as nature.