Hi Everyone,
This post is close to my heart. My parents and my In - laws
are incredibly special to me. When I was a teenager, our school had various
clubs and students were free to join whichever club they wanted. The club that
I had joined had taken us on a trip to some park and then to an old age home.
We were supposed to perform for them and spend time with them on that day. That
day still holds good in memory. I can never forget those people who had so many
stories to say about how they were thrown out of their homes by their children,
and they did not even care to check on their well-being. Some old ladies were
single mothers and had worked their entire lives so that they could provide
good education, food, clothes, and all other comforts to their children. That
day I had come home and hugged my parents and my grandmother and had shared the
plight of the old age home with them. I had seen tears rolling down their eyes
as well. I will never forget it my entire life.
Today I am bringing to you all an exceptionally beautiful
movie – Shonar Pahar (2018), a Bengali film which gives us all this
simple and straight message that no matter what parents are always and will
always love us unconditionally but sometimes we as children misunderstand their
constant display of concern towards us as nagging when in fact it is their love
that they show towards us and only us. This movie portrays an innocent and
beautiful friendship between a seven-year-old orphan kid and a seventy-year-old
lady. This movie shows the value of relationships to us which we have probably
forgotten in this rat race.
We owe our existence to our parents. They bring us to this
world, teach us everything and then one fine day when we become independent is
it right on our part to let them just live on their own simply because our
lifestyle does not match with theirs??? They have lived a certain way of life
for a very long time and asking them to change suddenly doesn’t happen so
easily. Besides, it is on our part to make those adjustments, understand their
feelings and let them be the way they are. After all, nobody wants to lead a
lonely life in their old age.
There is a scene in the movie where the son goes in search
of his mother to a police station and the cops show him into a room filled with
old people who are abandoned by their children, left to fend for themselves in
this big big world. The scene is so heart wrenching that anybody will cry
looking at it. How can people so easily just leave their parents just because
it is inconvenient to stay with them? It is impossible to imagine such a thing
but sadly this happens. Sometimes we become mute spectators to such things
being so helpless that we cannot do anything. We just say, “it is the story of
another household”.
I hope after seeing the movie anybody who is harboring such
an idea drop it because just put yourselves in their shoes. I cannot imagine my
daughter just leaving me somewhere at some old age home saying she is unable to
take care of me. As parents we will never leave our children anywhere. Then
why, why children abandon their parents? Just a food for thought.
That is it for today, I guess. Follow me on Koo App,
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your questions and suggestions. I am waiting to hear from all of you.
Love you All,
Namitha
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