Gifts for Mom - आज की बात

हालांकि आखिर में मज़ाक में कुछ कहा है पर यह कहानी बताती है की आज कल हम अपने मम्मी पापा

को कैसे तोफे देना पसंद करते हैं|



Three sons left home, started careers and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts that they were able to give their elderly mother for her seventieth birthday. The first said, "I built a big house for Mom."

The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver."
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The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat. You know how Mom enjoys the Bible and you know she can't see very well. I sent her a brown parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took 20 monks in a monastery 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for 10 years, but it was worth it. Mom just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."

Soon thereafter, Mom sent out letters of thanks:

She wrote to the first son, "Milton, the house you built is not practical. I live in only one room, but I have to heat, cool, and clean the whole house."

She wrote to the second son, "Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home all the time, so I never use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"

She wrote the third son, "Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to know what your mother likes. The chicken was delicious."

"मैं Parents के साथ रहता हु" To "Parents मेरे साथ रहते हैं."

Though these lines, that "मैं Parents के साथ रहता हु" To "Parents मेरे साथ रहते हैं." sounds very similar, but basically they showcase the thinking that we have for our parents. I may sound too rational, and also not talking about "What people should do?". Rather, I am talking about, that what is happening these days. कब जिंदगी में वो समय आता है के पहले में parents के साथ रहता हुईं, और फ़िर वो मेरे साथ रहने लगते हैं

Why it has become so difficult for our generation to keeping living with our parents. What kind of of independence or individual-space are we expecting. And basically no one accept that he is doing anything wrong.

To understand this.. let me give another example... if we asking anyone, that are you helpful or not. I have not seen a single person, who would say, that I am not helpful but still people that, that this person is not helpful or that person is not helpful. Reason being, everyone has certain limit to "Helping Others". One may see that a financial support of one lacs means helping him/her but the receiver may be expecting ten lac.

In similar sense, when we are not able to live with our parents, we start making excuses that, parents are expecting too much etc etc. But end result is that things have been separated. Before getting married, everyone hates those people who are not supporting their parents. Everyone respect their parents. But how come after getting married, things starts changing. What is required in our generation, that can bring the old joint family culture.