Disclaimer: This
is not intended to hurt anyone’s sentiments or point to anyone. I am just
exercising my right to freedom of thought and speech and words!
I did not really want to write about this but today I just
could not get this out of my mind and I had to take it out somewhere. And where
but my own space ... Just in the last 2 days 2 incidents came to my notice and
I am so furious and perplexed!
So my question to you all out there is how many times have you
been emotionally blackmailed by your parents? And how many times have you given
in, not because you agreed but because they are our parents and you didn’t want
to hurt them!
Let me describe few of the typical scenarios when this
mostly happens.... You want to marry the person you love but your parents don’t
approve. Or you want to go abroad for better opportunities but you cannot
because your parents don’t want you out of their sight. And these days, when
you want a divorce but your parents feel that would be the end of their social
reputation!
And trust me, these are real/true instances where parents
have staged sickness or health problems and asked their children to give up
what they wanted to as their dying wish! And medically, there was nothing wrong
with them in whatsoever tests.
At one point of time, I felt pity for these children and
also appreciated their act of valour, if I may say so. But after a point, I
wasn’t sure who I was appalled at – the parents who were forcing their child to
do something that he/she does not want to, giving up his/her happiness just so
that his/her parents could be happy, or at the child, who repeatedly lets being
dragged and cornered into such situations!
My contemplation today is, if you are parents, does it
really give you the right to play with your child’s emotions just for your
selfish motives?
And as a child, is it really our duty to bend to every wish
of our parents, even if it kills us from inside?
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