“She is mine and mine only. Not sharing her with the
universe.”
These words hit me when I heard them coming from a friend,
who, very recently, has become a father and was talking about his little girl. Fatherhood
can be overwhelming but the happiness I could witness in his voice was
priceless. I couldn’t help but think how my father would have felt about his
very first child. It’s amazing how fathers protect you with an unconditional
love. I have always seen this beautifully uncanny relationship between fathers
and daughters. It’s all because of their absolute love that the daughters love
them back with a mutual feeling. But no matter how hard we try, we can never
level up with the care they bestow on us. I get upset when I see the children
betraying, deceiving, or using harsh words for their parents. These are the times when I want to take
them back to the point when they came into this world and had the protective
arms of their mothers and fathers around them. My father always says that the
love between the parents and their children is a one-way traffic. He says it
doesn’t take long for the children to forget everything their parents have done
for them. This is a sad reality. But it never lessens the love our parents have
for us. I claim to love my parents more than anything else but I know their love can never be requited by me the same way they have always loved me. But at least I can
try to minimize their grievances. Unconditional love is a beautifully natural
thing that I believe only parents can acquire for their children.
My friend’s one simple sentence saturated with his sincere
emotions has made this love story of his one of my favorites.
