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Tears in the Eyes of Grandparents


       Tears, What does this word suggest. Tears are one of the the way to express Yourself. It can be of happiness or it can be of sorrow. It may be in pain or it may be in pleasure. If I think of this word, one heart touching story comes to my mind that left me with high suspense to decide ' Were these tears of pain or pleasure. Was these tears of happiness or sorrow'.
      
          This is the incident when I was living with my uncle at his home in my earlier months of my college life. After some months I shifted to the hostel as you know from my other post "My 1st birthday at College Hostel". My uncle had a home in which he had taken a room on rent. There were total ten rooms in the house and five families lived in that house. Only one whole family lived on the upper floor. Else everyone was either single or either they were old.

          This is a story of one of the old family living in that house . That was like the same tiring day as all the days were going on. This was one of the hot day of august. I was sitting at the roof of the house on the chair and feeling the cool breeze at the evening time. I was concentrating on the music that was being played on my phone.



         At the same time an old couple came to the roof with their chairs to sit.They settled their chair and sat on them. To offer my regards I lowered down the voice of the song that I was listening.They asked me some questions about my day and I answered them properly. I too asked them some questions about there health and they told me about some of there problems.


          Suddenly a man came with a kid in his arms. I was able to recognize him. He visited this old couple many times in the back time. he was the couple's younger son. and this kid was the couple's grandson. They were very happy to see him. They too the kid from their son's arm began to play with him. They become kids with their grandson . It seems that they had not seen the kid from a long while. It was really funny to see three kids playing with each other.


          Then, a phone call came to son which was his wife's call. He attended the call listened something for sometime but didn't said a word. Suddenly he cut the call and took his son away from his parent and took him away from them. I don't know what happened but I was shocked to see what had happened in front of my eyes. This made the couple cry. Both of them had tears in their eyes. I didn't had that much smartness to tell what was it.


          After seeing at all that things that happened in the front of my eyes. I become curious about the situation. I wanted to know what was the real thing behind this and when I came to know what was behind this I was shocked.


          And after discovering the real story all the thing that I can say was

'No matter what a child do with their parents. Parents are not going to think or do any bad of their child. This is true worldwide. This is not like it is applicable only in India where we give large value to a relation.

          This was the real story....


          The couple belonged to a middle class family who had their own small house some streets away from this place. They were living happily with their two sons. It was all okay with the elder son but the younger son was little bit mad. He was not able to take decisions on is own.


          Both of sons were ready for the marriage. So they started to find bride for their elder son. Elder son was working on a good designation in a company. So, it was easy to find a bride for him. Also both of the father and mother were working. So, there was no problem of money. Father was working in a factory and mother was working as a nurse. So, they started asking people about girls.


          It took some time to find a suitable bride for their son. He was shown many pictures before he said yes to one of the picture of one girl. Then a meeting was arranged between both of the families in which girl and boy had to meet each other. They said yes to each other. Afterwards it was a starting of the process of late night calling, chatting had started. Both of them shared everything with each other. They were very happy of each other.


          After some days parents decided to hold a ring ceremony in which rings and important materials are exchanged within the both side families. after that day both of them started to meet each other at every odd day.


           Finally the big day "The Marriage Day" came. Both of them were very happy. The marriage ceremony took place in the community gurudwara. A good arrangement was made by both of the families for the guests. The marriage ended at the great note. A reception party was held in the nearest hotel. Everyone in the community was invited for that party. It was a great party. Everyone enjoyed that party.



          As the first marriage ended on a great note. They thought to look girls for their second son and become free of their duty. For this purpose they tried to find a suitable bride for their less intelligent son. They found a girl in a far off village . They decided to marry him to her. When they went to met they came to know that her father was dead and all the responsibilities of her father had done by a person to whom her mother had married some five years ago. In other words he was her step father. He was not gentle with the family and did not happy with the marriage but the girl said yes. So ,he did not said anything on it.


          After some days marriage was fixed and they married in the same place as of his elder brother. On the same day of marriage in the community the mother's health begun to fall and she fainted during a ceremony was taking place. She was taken to the nearest hospital.



          To make arrangements of the two marriages they had taken a lot of loan on their behalf. They had to repay it now after everything was over. As the woman was on bed her income was cancelled. Father himself stayed with her so, his income was lowered. So, to repay their loans they have to sell their sweet home. They left their home and took three different rooms at different part of the city.



          All the three couples were now away from each other and were on their own. Now, mother's nurse job was gone. Father had become weak so got a less income job in a factory. Life had gone as it is till some time. Both of their sons were happy both of them had two children each. Till the younger son's wife had fought with their son and went to her mother's home. Son had not visited his parents in all those years but in this situation he thought to give a visit. When he visited he was asked why had he not visited all this long. To this he told that his wife had told not to visit his parents any more. 


           They told him not to go for her to bring her back. He went back to his home saying that he will not go  for her. After some days they got the news that he had gone to bring her back. It was some days back from the present day when I heard them saying we will not meet our son again. He is not at all intelligent. He don't listen to us. What will happen at most we will not be able to see our grandchildren. But this is okay with us.


This was the other day and this was today when they have tears in their eyes.


Do tell me if you know what was the category of these tears.    


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  1. please leave your comments...........

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  2. regret tears, because they never established a happy relationship with the younger son because this relationship proved to be more difficult.

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    1. Yes, Tom This is what I think about the post. The grandparents were more busy in thinking about the elder son.....

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