"And when someday we say to you that we don't want to live anymore....Do not get angry...Try to appreciate that our age is not just lived but survived."
- " To Our Dear Child",Parent's Wish, a poster in my dentist's clinic
It is a very beautiful poem. Something that every parent will want to say to their children. Every single line is almost every word that almost leaves the mouth , but doesn't actually come out. And the above lines are most touching. It just makes you look at that aspect with a completely different eye, an eye which understands and accepts. I wish every child could hear this poem or read it once. It completely changes the way you look at your parents and your grandparents too. You suddenly understand the meaning of having them, there, as solid as ever, not going anywhere. I wish I can get in the entire thing written down or something the next time I go, because I want every child in the world to read this, and when they have time to analyse the words. It just values your parents more. It gives you a chance to say " Thank you" before its too late, a chance to improve, before things get worse, and most importantly, to improve yourself as a person.
A Parent's Wish is always to see their children as better people than they themselves were, and I think, reading this poem definitely takes us a step closer to that.
