Full circle and level of tolerance
We have often heard people talking about how life takes full circle, while we all experience it in person we hardly acknowledge it, this is partially because we hardly remember our childhood or our left with few faded memories as we keep growing. Few memories that stay with us are mostly related to extreme experiences that left a mark on our mind and heart.
It was while talking to my mother today that I got the inspiration to write this blog. What is more important than the events that come in a parent child relationship is the level of patience that we excise while we talk to our parents irrespective of which age group we belong to. We hardly remember the patience that they kept when they were teaching us basics of life and new things every day until we were grown up enough to start living on our own, and as I write this I realize that the truth is that we can never grow up enough to not need our parents in our lives, this truth hits the most when we don't have them around.
The way we question our parents and their skills our children would be questioning ours for a simple reason that the level of exposure that they would get as compared to us would always differ for good. We start our journey with zero where our parents skill us up with endless patience, whereas mother ensures to form a comfort zone, father ensures to throw challenges our way to help us grow with confidence and learn from both success and failure. It is sad that when we reach a point where we need to skill our parents we leave them alone in the challenge zone forgetting the comfort they need from us in form of our endless support like they offered us. We often try to justify Losing patience with the work pressure we face, we get too engrossed in our work only to realize the importance of time in a parent child relationship when we become parents ourselves. May be that’s why our parents keep stating “we will discuss this with you, when you become a parent”, we often laugh it out at that very moment but find ourselves thinking on the same lines few years down the line.
Let us therefore try to live the full circle with more love and care, pay attention and give unconditional support before we start to regret our own behavior when we see that circle coming our way.
Manisha Dawar