2025-03-16T18:30:00Z
Day 8
Rest Day
The day went by going in and out of hospitals. Not because there were any emergencies but for a couple of check ups for both mom and dad and their frequent old age related ailments. And also for mom’s upcoming knee replacement surgery.
One child in almost every Indian family ends up bearing the responsibility of taking care of his parents. And it is usually the son. And since am the only son in the family, it automatically falls on me.
It’s not like I don’t love my parents but the fact that one can’t live life the way he or she wants to while being under the helicopter-like eyes of the Indian family system. Add to that my financial dependence and dependence due to my health issues and it has come to this neatly wrapped situation of not knowing how to escape the prison (along with the good old dosage of self-imposed guilt and parental guilt of what makes a good son blah blah blah).
I do take responsibility for it though. I should have moved far away when I was younger and healthier and built up my high income skills and financial independence. But instead spent too much time being lazy and getting laid.
There were some fun times ofcourse but the long term thinking wasn’t there and now I have to figure out a way to escape the trap I set myself in. Or at least know how to make the best of the situation.
If you are a young man, the best advice I can give from my own experience is to focus on wealth and fitness while doing a bit of dating now and then. Don’t be lazy or it will come to bite you back later on in life.
This all sounds like common sense but common sense isn’t so common especially when one is ruled by one’s hormones when young.
But not all is lost. It’s not that my parents are totally closed to my way of thinking. And it is possible to find a way regardless of what they think.
I have to have the attitude of “I’ll figure this out” or I might as well have to give up and call it quits. Am sure many have found their own way out in a similar situation (or even more impossible odds). Am sure I can do the same.