Family Happiness..

New Clothes

"Papa,I have to buy new dresses for my farewell," my daughter asked me who had only 1 month left to enjoy the most beautiful part of someones life, the school life. In the evening me, my wife and my daughter went for shopping. In the shop began the usual scenario, I saw hundred of clothes scattered around me, still my daughter and wife were not looking satisfied at all. As I was getting bored, I looked out of the shop and I saw a middle class family who had also come to buy some clothes in the opposite shop.They were 3, a person in his mid 40's, his wife and their son. The boy was not looking satisfied and was asking for further improvement in the quality. At last he chose one, parents asked the shopkeeper and I don't know what happened, they started looking at each other. The father checked his wallet and was not in comfort at all. Then I saw another purse joining him as her wife checked her wallet too. The tension increased, the husband and wife started communicating without any language which is the natural ability our brain generates in these situations. It reminded me of one day when I had to buy a new suit for my convocation and I went for shopping with my parents who both had made permanent transfer from this universe a long time before.

I chose a suit priced Rs. 5000, my father was a government employee and we were just good for money, though 5000 was outside his budget, he gave a pleasant smile to me and my mom and said "Beautiful choice son!" I had not seen him in my life buying expensive clothes for himself, he always saved money on other things so that I will not have to cut down my choices. When he died due to heart attack, I was lucky to have a last talk to him in the hospital. He only said one sentence "Son!I thank God that I have not seen tears in my sons eyes ever, because the day I would have seen them, I would have died a long before." I did not understand he literally meant them or not, one could not understand the feeling of being a father until he becomes one. Suddenly my daughter called me and asked me which dress is looking the best. I said, "the one you choose is the best for me always!" as tears came out of my eyes.