Let us make our grandparents feel important
A grandparent is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. The smart era where smartphones and busy schedules have taken us away from real wisdom,the relationship between us and our grandparents is in jeopardy. We have sidelined grandparents and it has become a heartbreaking story of each home—whether rural or urban families.In contrast,the trend not to spend more time with grandparents has shown a growth and has become a disheartened story of grandparents.
One day, I met my colleague who was upset and crying, repeatedly saying, "Buddha mar jata"—"If only the old man had died." I approached him and asked what had happened. He told me that his grandfather didn't allow him to play football while he repeated the same line “ Buddha Mar jata”.This triggered me a lot.
The condition where wisdom would be as a line on stone, unfortunately, becomes a forced compulsion. Grandparents are being ignored by the children and none wants to exchange their thoughts with them.With this regard, parents are unable to control the disheartened situation as the prior smart gadgets have been handed over to the parents, the reason which jeopardized the healthy relations.What could be our step to feel our grandparents more valuable to our lives?
This time has become a tough time as the teenage population is out of parental control and several factors are responsible for not being properly nurtured.Smartphones addiction,bad parental exposure towards grandparents due to family conflicts,jointly lead to the worsening of the conditions.This is the time to realise the gentle importance of our wisdom carriers and respect them cordially —irrespective of any greed of property.Their prayers should solemnly be an integral part of our lives.
This is a tough time—from where smartphones have grabbed our attention to family conflicts—we have to stand firmly and should adopt a healthy lifestyle,which will strengthen our relations with our grandparents.
How do your grandparents feel important ?
Importance means spending valuable time and memories.It is a part where we spend moments and share ideologies but uneven schedule has created havoc in the whole social circle.For realising this fact,whenever we go to any recreational site for relaxation and feel nature but we engage with photographs and other unnecessary things,which ultimately sideline our real exposure with nature. While at home we apply the same and miss out the wisdom.words of our storyteller.Spending time with grandparents— whose every word is an advice and wisdom—should be our reflex action.
They do not need our whole day but they want to share their thoughts and happiness with us to make us familiar with uneven phases of life,whether happiness or sorrow.In this though time,we feel inferior to spend time with them and share our personal thoughts with them,instead,we should exchange talks in between to grab real wisdom.It will also feel them more important.So we have to agree that our grandparents are our teachers,friends and storytellers—whose every single word carry emotion with wisdom.
Ayaan Saroori is a freelance writer and columnist
