( Edited by Divya Jain )
Birth parents or foster parents when we use the word 'parents', it instantly shows a relationship that there is someone you can call “maa” and “baba”.
We tend to have a comparing nature, some of which is inherited or adopted from our caregivers and from people around us where initially when we are young, we are compared with others around our age with respect to academics, sports, behavior, and what not irrespective the gender. When we grow up, we by then have adopted this comparing nature and then we compare our parents with other’s parents. Isn’t?
Don’t we compare our material possession with other’s things that someone has iPhone and we don’t, our friend has an expensive bike and we have a scooty, our friend goes shopping and we may just window shop with them and many times because we feel too embarrassed to go with them so we drop the plan and we begin complaining for all the things we don’t have and our friends have which honestly I also am guilty of.
We forget the privileges that we had, when I said to my parents about my dream to be a diplomat, they were there to support me financially and emotionally in fact, they encouraged me when everyone was telling them to get me married. Coming from a middle-class family I know the value of money and the value of education. I know they sacrificed a lot only to give me a comfortable life.
No human being is perfect so neither we nor our parents so when we feel that we are the unluckiest creature alive and complain about the things our parents have not given us then just for a minute or so think about:
The sacrifices they have done for us,
they may-not express it every time but they love us,
their scolding has concern for us,
the pain our mothers go through our birth from the time she conceives us to the time of delivery to the time she feeds us the time we fall sick and much more unlimited and unconditional love and affection we get from her.
they may not have given us everything we wanted but probably that was all they could do for us.
Respect and appreciate the efforts taken by them to make you who you are today, you ungrateful creature.
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