I read a book a couple of weeks ago, cant remember the name now. It was a story of a family(this lady who was middle aged) who had lost recently her mother, to alzeimers and her brother was proclaimed dead many years ago to autism. Eventually the family found that the brother wasnt actually dead, just in hiding to ensure that nobody in the community knew that the brother could not support himself. He was simply hiding, for his own good. I sometimes wish that was the case for Dada.
How so many people can depend upon one, single, seeminlgy insignificant thing, I do not know. The centrafugal force of a circle, the nucleas of a cell, the heart of a man - all can be so small, but yet so vital. How? Dada was the back bone of my family - a loving son to his parents, a protective brother to his siblings and a caring father to his daughter. As a husband, he may not have been a role model, but his ability to love and concern for his family was always sincere.
People always say that kindness in your current life will bring you a more prosperous future to come - it forms some of the basic principles of Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. A man reaps what he sows, right?No, wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If that was the case, my family would be the happiest people alive, but instead they are now faced with the deepest sorrows one should face.
Im going to India again in a couple of days, and the thought of having to see my family again and seeing the room where my dad's dead body lay before they took him to be creamted, makes me shudder a million times over. I dont want to have to see his bedroom without him in it, it will be too painful. But sometimes you have to face the pain, to get over the sorrow.
How so many people can depend upon one, single, seeminlgy insignificant thing, I do not know. The centrafugal force of a circle, the nucleas of a cell, the heart of a man - all can be so small, but yet so vital. How? Dada was the back bone of my family - a loving son to his parents, a protective brother to his siblings and a caring father to his daughter. As a husband, he may not have been a role model, but his ability to love and concern for his family was always sincere.
People always say that kindness in your current life will bring you a more prosperous future to come - it forms some of the basic principles of Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. A man reaps what he sows, right?No, wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If that was the case, my family would be the happiest people alive, but instead they are now faced with the deepest sorrows one should face.
Im going to India again in a couple of days, and the thought of having to see my family again and seeing the room where my dad's dead body lay before they took him to be creamted, makes me shudder a million times over. I dont want to have to see his bedroom without him in it, it will be too painful. But sometimes you have to face the pain, to get over the sorrow.
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