As you age, you realise what you have missed all these years , especially struggling and making money and adding all the stress burdens to your body and overburdening it,there comes a time when better wisdom prevails on you.
I too went through that phase,had my stints with pleasure, leisure, hard work and stress build ups, health scares,and my share of wealth , both material as well as personal.Recently,I had an opportunity to spend time, real quality time with my brother , his family after many years.He is a doctor by profession and way different in nature from me.We have our own strengths and areas of improvement and as years passed and we added salt and pepper to our intellectual territory, the head we really wizened up.This time around , I realized that we hit it of so well and could appreciate the finer aspects of life which we missed, all along .His affection and attention for details, his concern and care for my daughters who are grown up and cruising, his concern for the life after he retires from his profession next year and transits to a new ,quite place with his son,my nephew Akshay and his family.He never forgot to cater to my wishes, especially getting me the dollops of Chicken Biryani, inspite of he following a strict vegetarian meal rituals for the holy month of Shravan.It touched me a lot.It was one of my best visits to my hometown and I carried back memories,emotions, and got a whole lot of work done with the backing of my wife and kids.We had a moment where my daughters 2 wheeler stalled on the way back at midnight when we all were returning from a great party.It was an uphill task , literally as we had to drag the scooty up the hill with no help in sight.I had my car as well and ,without a second thought, my brother Rajan jumped out of the car and volunteered to push the vehicle up the slope.Inspite of my insistence that he drive the car , he refused and with all the stamina he has conserved even at 63,he trudged his way up the slope and I drove his family with hazard lights on ,closely.So many thoughts flashed my mind and I was uncomfortable.My health situations do restrict me pushing heavy loads, but here was a situation where , if i was alone, or had no other choice , what would I have done?You need family and your true well wishers to be around at times when you really need them.
I just stretched that imagination and wondered, how wonderful it would be if we could all stay as a small community together, in a small home of ours , where we could share thoughts, ideas, love, emotions, and moments that would probably never come again.Its the need of the hour.One can assist each other in times of need, emergencies, or just go on a holiday, share our concerns and give huge moral support.I plan to make that come true and hope my brother agrees to that.It would be great fun.One life and that's all that god has given us to experience these riches.If we squander these chances, they would never come again.We need to realize the enormous joy and delight it may give to one and all.Even staying in the same apartment, adjoining blocks, maybe even in the same house and make it a great HOME.
I too went through that phase,had my stints with pleasure, leisure, hard work and stress build ups, health scares,and my share of wealth , both material as well as personal.Recently,I had an opportunity to spend time, real quality time with my brother , his family after many years.He is a doctor by profession and way different in nature from me.We have our own strengths and areas of improvement and as years passed and we added salt and pepper to our intellectual territory, the head we really wizened up.This time around , I realized that we hit it of so well and could appreciate the finer aspects of life which we missed, all along .His affection and attention for details, his concern and care for my daughters who are grown up and cruising, his concern for the life after he retires from his profession next year and transits to a new ,quite place with his son,my nephew Akshay and his family.He never forgot to cater to my wishes, especially getting me the dollops of Chicken Biryani, inspite of he following a strict vegetarian meal rituals for the holy month of Shravan.It touched me a lot.It was one of my best visits to my hometown and I carried back memories,emotions, and got a whole lot of work done with the backing of my wife and kids.We had a moment where my daughters 2 wheeler stalled on the way back at midnight when we all were returning from a great party.It was an uphill task , literally as we had to drag the scooty up the hill with no help in sight.I had my car as well and ,without a second thought, my brother Rajan jumped out of the car and volunteered to push the vehicle up the slope.Inspite of my insistence that he drive the car , he refused and with all the stamina he has conserved even at 63,he trudged his way up the slope and I drove his family with hazard lights on ,closely.So many thoughts flashed my mind and I was uncomfortable.My health situations do restrict me pushing heavy loads, but here was a situation where , if i was alone, or had no other choice , what would I have done?You need family and your true well wishers to be around at times when you really need them.
I just stretched that imagination and wondered, how wonderful it would be if we could all stay as a small community together, in a small home of ours , where we could share thoughts, ideas, love, emotions, and moments that would probably never come again.Its the need of the hour.One can assist each other in times of need, emergencies, or just go on a holiday, share our concerns and give huge moral support.I plan to make that come true and hope my brother agrees to that.It would be great fun.One life and that's all that god has given us to experience these riches.If we squander these chances, they would never come again.We need to realize the enormous joy and delight it may give to one and all.Even staying in the same apartment, adjoining blocks, maybe even in the same house and make it a great HOME.
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