My pet peeve nowadays is this meme that goes around, a mom telling her son, that she will always be his first love and will love him the most in life, that he will never find another one who loves him as purely as her... something along those lines.
And I see moms of little boys, sharing it over & over on facebook.
Come on moms, is this really what we want for our son? Really? Seriously?
The other day, I was wondering, what is THAT ONE THING I should pray to God to grant Sumukh in his life to keep him truly happy? I went through a list of things.
Intelligence- but being intelligence doesn't necessarily translate to being an achiever/winner.
Very good education- but again, this doesn't necessarily translate to being an achiever, being well settled financially.
Being rich (financially 'rich', affluent)- no use unless you have great people in in your life to truly enjoy it with.
Health- Yes, absolutely important. But no use if a young healthy man wastes at home without a proper education/job/opportunities.
Fame- Being famous in public life, doesn't mean a person is happy on their inside.
A great job- no use to have a career & money unless one has good health & mental peace/family/friends.
Finally I decided, we need contentment to be happy. We need a bit of all the things I mentioned above in my list, but happiness comes only when we can enjoy all this with FAMILY, when we can build & achieve all this with the SUPPORT & APPRECIATION from our family.
Life is full of ups & downs that come & go in waves.
The sweetest memories we accumulate & look back onto, are not made just of the happy moments. It is very sweet to recollect the difficult bits of life & realize that our family, our love, was with us through it all. That someone was ready to hug us when we felt like losers. It is a pleasure to share our wins & achievements with that someone when life takes a turn for the better.
I want my son to feel that unconditional love in life, forever, even after me.
I pray that he gets to spend his life with a woman who loves him to bits, who stands by him while he stands by her. I want my son to have the unconditional love that I have been blessed to experience in life. It is rare, it is not something to be taken for granted, it comes from the blessings & efforts of several life cycles.
As I am raising my son, a mother somewhere is raising my daughter in law ;)
A very happy mother's day to that mother.
My biggest dream is to live peacefully, knowing that my son has a wife who loves him a lot. I want my son to be very happy, very much in love with his wife.
When I am very old, knowing that my children are in love, observing that they are together through thick & thin, will give me immense peace, that one realization will help me rest in peace when it is my time. I hope God has blessed me to experience this one wish of mine.
Krishna & I are doing our bit, we will try our best to raise a responsible compassionate human, someone who will hopefully grow up to be a compassionate husband & father. I pray & hope he meets his soulmate, another compassionate responsible human, to share the joys & sorrows of life with!
Of course, this is my dream for my son. He may have some other dream, but the bottomline is, God, please bless him with contentment & a fire to excel, in whatever he chooses, opportunities at the right time, ability to recognize & grab those opportunities. And grace/
