“Truth is like the sun. You can shut
it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.” - Elvis Presley
In June 2014, I met an old man of 62
years who survived a massive heart attack. He is known to me for the last 40
years. He was bedridden and was unable to move. I saw him as a young man; as a
middle aged man; and now as an old man. As a young, he was very energetic and
handsome. As a middle aged man, he was little worried with lots of
responsibilities. As an old man he was totally dejected with life. I felt very
bad at his pathetic position. I have the habit of asking old people the lessons
they learnt and the message they like to share with the world.
When I asked him the lessons he
learnt, he replied that 62 years was not the age to be bedridden. He said that
he had encountered several challenges in his life since childhood. One of his
daughters eloped with a boy at the time of marriage recently. It upset him and
led to massive heart attack. He said that children who cheat their parents get
cheated at the end of their lives. I thought to write on this trigger to
enlighten the world.
Some children think of fooling their
parents. They treat it as a fun but the fact is that they lose the trust from
their parents. They don’t realize that they hurt their parents by fooling them.
When people cheat others it affects them
emotionally as they often think about it throughout their lives. It remains as an
unpleasant one forever and bugs them throughout their lives. When parents come
to know that their children cheated them, they cannot digest it and suffer
silently within themselves. In that situation, parents must come out openly and
express their emotions and feelings to their children. It helps in correcting
their children and putting them on the right track. The reality is that
children often tend to fool their parents not with an intention to hurt but to
make fun or hide their failures or secrets. The parents must enlighten their
children the difference between fooling and cheating.
Hence, parents must inculcate ethics
and etiquette in their children since childhood and enlighten them from time to
time with the right values and morals to groom them as good citizens. The
children should also not get influenced by age pressure and peer pressure and
must think what is right and wrong before they do anything. It helps them avoid
emotional baggage in future; avoid regrets at their deathbed; and keep their
parents hale and hearty apart from evolving as good citizens.
“You can fool all the people some of
the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all the time.” - Abraham Lincoln
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