Many births from one parents

Parents give birth to children only once. And then they destroy them with words that hurt their self image. They destroy them every time they compare them with other kids. When they give them negative about what they cannot do. When they pass their rotten belief-sets to them, limiting their thinking well before it would have rotten anyways. When they try to mold them into what makes the parents look good in the society.

But mine did the opposite. They never mentioned about how I look - I always believed that I was as handsome looking or better than anybody else. They always expected me to be the best I could be and not what others wanted me to be like. They never compared me to anybody else. They never said NO to what I wanted to do in a way that would reduce my confidence on myself. Whether it was going to Europe for the exchange program or choosing the girl I wanted to marry or insist on waiting for IIT and not compromising on it....

They have given birth many times over. They trusted on what I thought about something more than they trusted themselves. They were open to learning from my perspective rather than imposing theirs on me....

And they led me and inspired me to search for the eternal truth of life; to experiment with the unknown; to reach beyond the known....

They gave me many rebirths - for each of the former is a virtual death of the human potential......and each of the latter a certain rebirth of our potential.....

I pray and wish that I can be the parent that they have been to me....