THE REAL MEANINGFUL LIFE!

An elderly gentleman was living in a joint family of his children along with their families.. It was really a big and happy family.. Every one was educated and industrious and the children were well disciplined..

But unfortunately, the elderly man was not a happy man all the while.. He was often complaining that the younger members of the family all the time were not so friendly with him, always busy in their own works, not paying attention to him many times, sometimes feeling a little uncomfortable with his nearness etc..etc..

He was thus sad..

As he met his old friend in a Park one evening, he could no longer control and keep the problem to himself and vented out the anarchy at home including the sad part of it.. How he was sidelined!

His friend happened to be a great introvert.. He was truly a problem solver and was a great success in life.. He understood his friend’s problem and wanted to give him a piece of advice.. He said..

“See my dear, we are aged and we have gone thru’ the many turmoil of life, a mixture of pleasures and pains.. Please tell me, did we not have tough life in our younger responsible days? In those days, we too were desperate and equal number of times we too were showing our disgust and used to vent out our feelings.. So, this is a very much natural happening in these instances..” 

Saying thus, he paused for a while.. The elderly man was looking at his friend keenly.. The friend further continued..

“The youngsters of your family are well educated, have steady jobs, work hard and thus are truly the responsible people.. Here, they have to take care of their children’s up bringing and all are totally involved in their duties thus.. In fact the reality is that the situation in your family needs lots of attention, energies, strengths and finances and beyond this many sleepless nights added too.. All your people have determined to do this unique task together for the welfare of the family and in this context only, everyone is running round with no time to breath.. 

Their journeys in life are like sailing ships on seas with sails unfurled... Their directions depend on winds blowing, they are in the middle of waters and they have to constantly steer the ships to reach ultimately the shore safely.. This is the present great task with these busy young men and women around you.. 

Compared to all this bustle, our lives are now simply devoid of all this turmoil except our age related health ailments.. We have safely traveled, almost are near to shores, in calm waters, almost furled our sails and thus are free from the direction of winds and peaceful on home front issues.. 

In such a situation, by being free and by staying at home, we can definitely help these coming up families in general with our small energies such as taking care of the young kids in time, being helpful with saved finances where required but not in a wasteful way and as a head in general for advising and guiding on trivial issues.. This task is very much in front of us at this point of time in which we can actively involve.. 

Strangely leaving all this, how can we find fault with our own people for not showing attention and asking for the same?  Do we really need anything like this?" 

While parting, the friend smiled and whispered in his ears..

"More or less, we have lived our lives the best, dear; But the young are going thru' this process presently.. Tell me, should we not help these youngsters now at this stage?  In fact, the real Peace is with us  only when we sincerely do this job totally with all honesty but nothing less of it any time!"