When we were growing up- The unseen side

Time flies- A phrase which has become a cliché but that is the reality too. It was just few years ago when we were a group of kids playing around without any tension or worry. Just go to school, do your homework, play, eat and sleep. Then we started thinking “when would we grow up?”, ” nobody listens to me”, “let me just grow and then I’ll show what I’m capable of, what do these elders think of themselves” and so on. And then time passed by, so we finally got what we had been craving for years, now people listen to us. Yes! We are grown-ups. We have completed college, started earning, have become self-dependent.  But we might not have realized that, all this while, when we were growing up our parents were going older.  Now, that young beautiful face of Mumma and strong hands of Papa has wrinkles. We come home on vacations and think that Papa can easily carry that 20 Kg suitcase. We plan to go for shopping, for the whole day, with Mumma. It’s difficult to accept that suddenly Papa is not able to carry that suitcase and Mumma can’t walk from one shop to another to search that best dress for us. And we wonder what happened.  It takes time to realize that they are going older and our expectations needs to change.

Time passes and it brings so many changes with it. The hands which we held when we didn’t know where to go, now, need our support. Now it’s our time to carry their bag and to go for shopping and get stuff for them, to stand in a queue and let our parents sit comfortably. We want some changes and some changes occur which we did not thought of -out of which we accept some happily and some cannot be.