Dear Son,
Its been more than 14 years now, God took away my dad as he was short of good people himself. I was 15 that time. It's almost half of my life he is physically away from me. Although I rarely felt him away from me emotionally, spiritually or mentally. He has been in everything which has brought his family where it is today.
I grew, I studied, I fell, I rose, I worked, I got married and now I have a son myself. In this journey he has been with me and whenever I felt alone, he would somehow make me feel he is around. He is my God and has been strengthening me all along. He has been with me all these years in form of my Mom and Sister.
My lovely wife delivered a beautiful 'you' a few weeks back and I felt dad around you. I do not know how happy he would have been holding you in his arms. He was a very emotional person. But I still cannot imagine how much he would have loved his grandson. He would certainly feel like:
" TO LOOK AT YOU;
TO LOOK INTO YOU;
TO LOOK UPTO YOU;
SHALL FOREVER BE THE JOY OF MY LIFE"
My child, this is from one of the first pages of my Dad's dairy for you.
Kid, when you will be big enough to read this, I want to gift you your grand dad, bring him back from his diaries, from his anecdotes, from the time we spent with him, from his aura, from the love he spread around him to you. I want you to be like him, love like him, be grand like him, have a big heart like him.
He was a friend of friends, a lover, a philosopher, a thinker, person with open arms, an optimist, a believer, a strong man who loved his family.
He writes in his diary from 1973:
"YOU ARE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU".
That's the first lesson he would teach you. You are born out of love. Love is the very basis of your existence. He loved his family, all of us more than anything. He would have tears in his eyes if we were leaving him for vacations, he would cry if I cried when I fell ill. He would love us like no other. This is what his life was made of. Little joys in our eyes and he would enjoy them.
Son, my father imbibed in me this feeling of love. I want people around me to love me as this is existence to me. He lived this love. I saw people loving him, people still love him. Just when I thought about posting his diary lessons for you, a lot of people showered their love on him. He was loved by too many people, more than I would ever know!
Son, love fearlessly and be someone whom the world loves. That is what I believe he believed in. Love was Godly to him. He further writes on being close to people
"TO BE CLOSER TO GOD, BE CLOSE TO PEOPLE"
That is the essence of existence.
This series I am writing for you my Son as my dad said:
"A WISE SON MAKETH A GLAD FATHER". I hope my dad is glad for me and I will be glad for you.
Lovingly yours'
* All sentences in capital are excerpts of my Dad's diary (which dates back to 1973).
Its been more than 14 years now, God took away my dad as he was short of good people himself. I was 15 that time. It's almost half of my life he is physically away from me. Although I rarely felt him away from me emotionally, spiritually or mentally. He has been in everything which has brought his family where it is today.
I grew, I studied, I fell, I rose, I worked, I got married and now I have a son myself. In this journey he has been with me and whenever I felt alone, he would somehow make me feel he is around. He is my God and has been strengthening me all along. He has been with me all these years in form of my Mom and Sister.
My lovely wife delivered a beautiful 'you' a few weeks back and I felt dad around you. I do not know how happy he would have been holding you in his arms. He was a very emotional person. But I still cannot imagine how much he would have loved his grandson. He would certainly feel like:
" TO LOOK AT YOU;
TO LOOK INTO YOU;
TO LOOK UPTO YOU;
SHALL FOREVER BE THE JOY OF MY LIFE"
My child, this is from one of the first pages of my Dad's dairy for you.
Kid, when you will be big enough to read this, I want to gift you your grand dad, bring him back from his diaries, from his anecdotes, from the time we spent with him, from his aura, from the love he spread around him to you. I want you to be like him, love like him, be grand like him, have a big heart like him.
He was a friend of friends, a lover, a philosopher, a thinker, person with open arms, an optimist, a believer, a strong man who loved his family.
He writes in his diary from 1973:
"YOU ARE NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY LOVES YOU".
That's the first lesson he would teach you. You are born out of love. Love is the very basis of your existence. He loved his family, all of us more than anything. He would have tears in his eyes if we were leaving him for vacations, he would cry if I cried when I fell ill. He would love us like no other. This is what his life was made of. Little joys in our eyes and he would enjoy them.
Son, my father imbibed in me this feeling of love. I want people around me to love me as this is existence to me. He lived this love. I saw people loving him, people still love him. Just when I thought about posting his diary lessons for you, a lot of people showered their love on him. He was loved by too many people, more than I would ever know!
Son, love fearlessly and be someone whom the world loves. That is what I believe he believed in. Love was Godly to him. He further writes on being close to people
"TO BE CLOSER TO GOD, BE CLOSE TO PEOPLE"
That is the essence of existence.
This series I am writing for you my Son as my dad said:
"A WISE SON MAKETH A GLAD FATHER". I hope my dad is glad for me and I will be glad for you.
Lovingly yours'
* All sentences in capital are excerpts of my Dad's diary (which dates back to 1973).
