Elder's pride

How often it happens that someone asks you something in a kind, polite manner and you answer them with your famous rude remarks. When that someone being your mom, your dad, or your granny’s, it becomes simpler, easier to answer in a way that is upsetting. Of course you don’t care and why should you, when they are giving you all the love without you putting any effort. Your girlfriend asks for a thing, and you get it from miles away. Your mom asks for a pouch of milk from that shop two minutes away from home, and you ask herself to go get it because you know she’ll love you anyway and feel no hate for you, after all you are her son, how can she not love you. She’ll ask you for what you want to eat and she’ll cook some delicious food you’ll nowhere get and what she gets is her teenage son ranting over the choice of clothes she made for her son. Can’t say it without sounding clichéd but she suffers so much for you and all you do is feel only good riddance when she leaves the room and you can watch something you couldn’t in her presence. Your dad wants to ask something about the school, or college or studies or the site you are surfing from the money he has hard earned and guess what, you say you won’t understand it dad and he stays silent because he loves you, because he believes his son knows more than he does what if he has gone through twice the childish life you live, because he believes you’ll outdo him with your success what if he is more successful than anyone you know and he is happy about that, he wants that, he works hard for what he believes about you. And you think he is not as good as you, because he doesn’t knows about the film released last Friday or about the game you play so well on your console but he is fine with it, because he loves you. Because he loves a guy who won’t show respect to his wife and parents neither by his words nor with his actions. Your grandparents are what your parents are because you too are what your parents are. They have lived most of their lives and want nothing but happiness from their kids and naughty grandsons and cute granddaughters, your parents fulfill them but you again feel they are too orthodox to understand what you do or say or think. This maybe to some extent true but you’ll know that when your own grandchild would think the way you now do. They are the least respected people and you are no exception in raising that bar. Doesn’t it feels good when someone younger shows you respect just because he knows you are older, treats you good because he knows you have lot to offer if given an ear. Give that same feeling through you. Just do that to people not only older than you but to everyone because you are a good human, you know that giving respect is the only way to get it back, thereby maintaining the decency we always should. Grow up guys, not just physically. Respect them for they love you like no one else; for they believe that you’ll make them proud. So they no longer have to go through the mental trauma and social disgrace they feel when you do stuff that isn’t acceptable and still give you a chance to improve as a son, as a daughter and as a person, because they love you. They want their child to be happy and you make them happy, reciprocate the kind love and be an elder’s pride.  

Posted by Aditya