The Silent Love of DAD

 

It happened before an year, but I still remember that cheerful old man in the same way, height'ed, flat cap on his head and with grey color coat and the glorious sparkle in his eyes. 

Spring was approaching and the cold weather of winter is started to become warmer in afternoon. In this loving environment, we went for outing in a park. After a nice walk of two and half hours we took rest in nearby gazebo. It was a beautiful place surrounded by a small lake. It was around afternoon time and the silence was at its peak. Couple of ducklings were swimming in the lake and squirrels were wandering from one tree to another. We were peacefully enjoying the environment. It felt like we were in meditative state without taking any efforts. 

After some time, we saw an old age man coming towards same place. He had a stick in his hands and was slowly walking on the trail enjoying the surroundings. When he came near the gazebo, suddenly his walking speed increased and he quickly moved towards one of the corner of gazebo. He pointed his one hand towards the same corner and said "Come here, let me show you something..."

We followed the old man and stopped near the pillar in that corner. We observed that two hearts were carved on that pillar with a alphabet in it. He moved his palm from those two hearts and said "Me and my son carved it when he was 10 years old. It has been 30 years since then but every time I visit here, I see it and feel good about it."

While talking about his memories, the gestures in his eyes were telling me so many things. It had the satisfaction about the worthiness of all the hardships and pain he had so far in his life. I had the richness about the life's high and low experiences. It had the pride about his son and beyond that the sky-full love that he had for his son. 

It was a small incident, but the emotions related to this were so precious and deep that within this 4-5 minutes I felt a different relation about 'father and son' relationship, particularly the silent love of father.

We always talk about mothers love for her child, but father remains little bit ignored in this case. May be because its not easy to express the feelings for him as DAD. In society, the character of dad is always showcased as disciplined and strict. Nobody talk about his heart. 

As a father, he always stumble for his child to progress in life, to be a big person and while doing this, many times he act as a strict dad. Even if he is crying in his heart, he didn't allow tears to come in his eyes. That's the reason his emotions remain silent in the world.

PS: That day only I understand, not all the hearts drawn on historical and social sites represent love of lovebirds, some really represent genuine relationships💜.