My Shining Light

In my growing up, I spent more time with my father then my mother. They were separated and my father had mine and sister's custody. Mom was not much around; it was all the time my father for anything and everything. He was the Mother and Father both and I feel blessed to have him. He had a hard life but for me and my sister he did everything in his capacity. He is no more and that's the one complaint I always have with the Universe that before I reached to a capacity to pay him back, he was taken away from me.

I sometimes wonder if he was not in my life how my future would have shaped up. The sacrifices he made, not every person can do it. It was always me and my sister first. He had serious medical issues but never cared for himself much. Did not even take proper treatment, only with the intention of not spending money on himself and saving it for me and my sister, for our future. We were very young then and did not realize all these things. I felt in that time that he was miser, but later I realized, he was not miser, he was only saving it for us and left everything for us. Even though it was not a fortune, he made our lives comfortable.

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To think of it, it's not only parents' responsibility to take care of their children, it is equal responsibility. As parents get old, roles reverse. In my case, I could not do anything for my father. But now I make it a point to take good care of my mother. Even though she was not around in my growing up, after all she is still my mother, and the only parent I have left, who I need to be kind and loving with.

My father was and is my shining light. I know even though he is not there, from heaven he still sends his love to me and stays around me keeping me safe and protected like he used to when he was alive.

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