A Saddening Truth

 Parents are the most precious gems we are bestowed upon with by our creator. Among them the most patient, strong and the most fragile character is of our mother’s. The role she plays in her child's life is noteworthy. Our mothers keep themselves preoccupied with household chores and in looking after the basic necessities of her child and struggles day and night to meet up with all those needs.

Our mothers prefer sleepless nights over comforting slumbers. Their first priority is their children's happiness and for that purpose our both parents make plenty of sacrifices which are beyond our imaginations.

Unfortunately children with the passage of time tend to neglect their parents. This is the worst gift of this era. Nowadays due to rapid advancement and modernization, values and norms have also changed. With a busy lifestyle, be it studies or work children don’t have much time to spend with their parents, even if they are living under the same roof.This leaves a deep scar on the our mother's heart, sometimes she doesn't express it and keep trying to convince herself that she has got to deal with her loneliness for the sake of her child's successful career.

Empty is the right word for parents with faraway children. The conditions are worsening so badly that some children get so fed up of their parent’s presence in their surroundings that they drop them to old homes. They treat those mothers this way who gave up their everything just to bring the smiles on their child’s face.

“There were different sessions of fights in our house with my son’s wife”,says Ahsan’s mother, currently a resident in an old home. She further said that everyday she keeps waiting that one day her son will show up to take her home back.

Such situations in the society makes one wonder that how can the children’s of such mothers living in an old homes, be so insensitive. They are so obnoxious that they never give a second thought to the pathetic and irrational decision of sending there.By doing this they only runaway from their responsibilities. Such ruthless acts make one wonder how these selfish people will face their creator in the hereafter.

In today’s era when the extended family system has been taken over by the nuclear family, it is revealed that its difficult for some parents to accept change in their children’s lives because they are emotionally dependant upon them and expect their greater attention.

“He could have stayed, but America was always on his mind, says Samad’s parents. They further told,” Old age has its own disadvantages. We see our son on Eid or on weekends when he and his wife needs a babysitter for our grandson. This is not I hoped my future would be and that is why we feel empty from inside.”

It is such a distressing fact but the problem is increasing on daily basis within our society.Those who still have their parents with them must cherish and enjoy each and every moment of life with them because you never know when they’ll leave you. Ask those who crave for being with their parents just for once, then you will realize that how lucky you are to have these two most wonderful gems on the earth.