mummy papa

(the names are changed in this story....unbelieble but true...)
In my neighborhood, a Sharma family resided while Mr. Sharma was a employee in a private firm with little income, Mrs. Sharma was a simple home maker but still they were quite contented with their lives. They lived a quite comfortable life until Mrs. Shrama got paralysis. It was a big shock for Mr Shrama and his family as all the responsibilities were on him. They had only one son whose name was arvind. Mr Sharma main aim was to provide his son world best education so that he could become a good doctor in future. And Mr Sharma did everything for his son. After completing his 12th arvind wrote some medical entrances but could not sail through, he again wrote some entrance examsbut still he did not get anywhere. So Mr Sharma decided to send him Russia to peruse his dream. He spent all his life savings on his studies and still was very happy with his life. after completing his graduation his son enrolled himself for the PG program without having any prior consent with his dad whether he had the money or not, and told about his decision to his parents. Mr Sharma didn’t want to abort his son’s plan so he asked for a bank loan. But the EMI was so high that Mr Sharma turned down the offer and borrowed from his relatives. After completing his PG, arvind returned back to India, and fortunately got a very good job in one of the very good hospital. Mr Sharma was the happiest and proudest man in this universe as his son fulfilled his dream. Soon arvind started getting many good marriage proposals and finally got engaged with a girl kavita who was also a doctor and very soon they were married. After his marriage his relatives started pressurizing Mr Sharma. The debt was mounting on him and he was feeling very upset about it so one day he told his son about this.
mr sharma: you know arvi our relatives are asking for the money ? and you must be aware of my condition that whatever I had, I had already spent on you and right now I am running out of money as whatever I am earning I am spending on your mom’s treatment…so beta please one by one repay our relatives money so that they wont disconnect themselves from us and the contacts can be maintained for forever. I expect that you and kavitha will seriously consider it and will repay them.
son: yeah dad but I guess you must be aware of my condition too . I have just now settled in life and don’t have any bank balance. Whatever me and kavitha are earning we are saving so that we can establish a clinic of our own as it was your dream too.

Mr Sharma: but arvi, clinic can be opened after sometime too, first you must get clear of all debts so that you will not live under any pressure….and once your debts are cleared we don’t have anything too do…..and you can do whatever you like….

Son: (what my debts!!!!!!!! Dad, don’t forget its you who borrowed this money , and now because of you we are facing this problem of insolvency, You are the only one because of whom I am living under this surmounting debt…i never borrowed anything from anyone………you incurred it on your own. I am asking what was the need for you to borrow so much of money??……

Mr Sharma: beta…(.stunned)…tears are rolling down on his cheeks…speaking in a manner as if his throat is choked….beta…do you think I did it for my own pleasures….

Kavita (meddling into the conversation): I guess arvi is right…we both have to make our careers and we have just now started working and we cant repay so much….sorry to say dad…but Me and arvind have got a job in Delhi and next month we will be shifting there so plz u handle it your own……..

After this they left their parents and went to Delhi, soon mr Sharma sold his house and repaid all his debts, and with the help from some NGO he is now in a old age home in jaipur…but what is that keeps on troubling me ? how can a man leave his own mother and father like this ? who did so much for him, who cared for him all through their lives, who provided him everything that he asked for? Who always supported him in all his decisions? and at the end what they got from all their sacrifices that they made for him? If arvi was doing something wrong with his parents kavitha must have guided him , she must have understood the fact that if a man can not be of his own mother can never be of any other women in this world. So taking arvi granted could be a mistake of her and she must understand that she too has parents if someone do the same with her parents how would she feel. Anyways whatever was the problem, at least they must have not sent their parents to an old age home because they too have emotions and feelings, which they want to share with their children for whom they suffered all through their life. i am sure there they wont be able to live happily because they will be in contact with similar kind of people who have been bereft by their own son and daughters and listening to them would make them feel more worse about it.if our mom and dad are doing so much for us can’t we just provide them a space of one room and food for two times, when they were young they never asked us but now when their body has emaciated we have also left them?.....if not for anything at least , as a human being he must have not left them like this alone in a time when they need him most? is this called humanity? Remember we will also have a family and if our son and daughter for whom we will take so much of pain, if they will also the same as we are doing how would we feel. we may not understand it now but we will definitely understand it in future. I know that rising sun is always appreciated but it is the sunset which makes us feel that life is going comfortably and we will definitely see a sunrise next day.I don’t know what was wrong with their family but I find arvi guilty of everything that his parents are facing today…….

song: her baat ko tum bhulo bhale ma baap ko mat bhoolna..................

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