34.What Did I Do For My Parents?
| I feel a tiny pain somewhere in a soft corner of my heart – not physical but mental.When I was in 5th standard if I am correct, at one of the lessons of religious knowledge, we were told that any children will never be able to serve their parents to the extent of even at least one fourth their parents did for them.
With regard to me it is absolutely correct. It may be same for others also. What I did for my father and mother? One fourth? One eighth? One sixteenth? No. Never.
Few months after I resumed duties of my first job, I lost my father suddenly.What I had done for him before his death? Have I bought even a shirt for him from my first salary? My mother was alive when I was passing even my 25th year of my professional life.When I returned home time to time from my foreign jobs, it is true I have presented her some sarees and blouse materials and some fancy items. Are they sufficient for the tears and sweat she dropped for me from my infancy? Mother was bed ridden for a long time before her death. Those days my brother was also away from home attending to his job at a distant area. Mother was entirely looked after by my two sisters. They are lucky. They can be happy today and forever for offering substantial service for the mother, at least for the extent of one fourth. But what about me? Why I could not realize this those days? Now it is too late Basil.
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