What do you think about this? When it happens?

I am completely with you and this article of yours has made me quite emotional. I just can’t resist writing about some of my most memorable moments of life.

It had been a usual habit of my PAPA to congratulate me on my success in all the examination (be it CA Inter/ Final or whatever) just by saying “thanks Beta………..(and a lot more which I remember like yesterday’s event)”. When I disclosed my CS final results he was like on seventh heaven. Even then he did not miss out to say thanks to me.

Same is the case with my uncle. When he came to know about my CA final results, I was expecting something different this time but he reacted the same way in which PAPA did “Thank you Beta…..” Not only uncle or PAPA, my Special Friend also greeted me by saying that I have made all of them proud.

I go ga ga when I think about those moments. I feel that it is my duty and responsibility to live up to expectations of my near and dear one’s. So the word “thanks”, is it required anyway? Absolutely not, it makes the celebration a bit formal.

I always keep saying my friends not to use the word “sorry” and “thank you” with me. I am bugged up of hearing these two words from everyone around and I don’t want that formal dose from my close ones. I can hear these polite words from a stranger on the road too. I don’t want my relationship to be so formal whose roots don’t go deep down the veins and are held just on threads of “thank you”, “sorry” and “Please”.

It is good to say that these polite words make my relationship formal but when it comes to me, I always end up saying these two words. The end result is that we are brought up in such a polished environment that these words come out spontaneously from our heart in spite of the fact that it makes the relationship formal.

This politeness as you said should be there when it comes to our old age parents but it should come from heart rather than from words. There is a real urge for the youths to inculcate such habits when dealing with their old age parents. I wish the real world is the way it appears on TV advertisements (recall ICICI bank Ad when the wife asks her hubby – ” babu ji k liye draft banaya…. nahi banaya na.. bhool gaye… 1 din mujhe bhi bhool jaoge). The advertisement looks so cool and I just love it but it feels very sad to write that reel life is just the other way round when compared to real life.

There is so much to learn from flicks and melodrama (Saas Bahu serials) which are talk of the day. But do we actually absorb anything from them? The answer is a big “no”. It is very easy to replicate Payal/Mandira (negative character of Kyunki….) but it takes a hell lot of pain to inculcate the character of Tulsi (renowned bahu of melodrama kyunki….).

Everything in life has a positive and negative lesson. It depends upon us what we choose. We should not walk back when it is time to pay back to our parents. Commitment is the base of every relationship, be it professional life or personal life. A good professional never breaks the commitment made to his client. Similarly, a good human being never breaks his personal commitments. There is a need for some commitment in our personal life too. I hope all the professional agree with me on this.

Madhur, thanks a lot once again for writing such a wonderful article.

Keep going man!