☻☻Love your Parents ☻☻

I was 11 when my father had lost his job and for the next 5yrs he was without a job until he decided to do something of his own and make a living rather than waiting for a life. But there was one thing he never lost and never will, it was Hope!!

The teacher in my school always used to mark me for late payment of fees, I turned down birthday parties for the need to buy a gift, I was using the same bag for 4 years till it was completely unusable, using a non-dust rubber seemed a luxury and pencils were supposed to be used till I wasn't able to hold them, me and my sister used to share a sharpener, buying a good compass box was out of question, having different shoes for PT period was something that we couldn't afford, we couldn't buy a cycle so I learned cycling on my friend's cycle, I didn't go out to play for the fear of getting hurt&requiring medical attention, while playing cricket one either has to have a bat or contribute for the ball so I always was the umpire. School picnics were missed saying I was ill and the entire vacation was spent home watching TV or reading. I have a sister and her situation was the same.
My mother was the sole earning member of the family; we were a family of 6 and average middle class family. There were two such occasions when there was no money left for food and that was the time when my father sold some jewelry for survival, which was the first time I saw my dad cry from the corner of my eye. But even at such times my dad never said NO to anything, he always gave me hope that someday he will get all those things that I want, buy me everything that he ever promised to get me and make-up for all the discomfort that he couldn't give me and my sister.

It was my 18th birthday last week and my dad gifted me a Firefox cycle with a fast track bag, a Dragon ball Z compass with everything like pencil, rubber, sharpener, scale, etc. inside it. The whole night I was crying; he never forgot, he never let me down; it was never a false hope! He actually gave meaning to the words "Hope is a good thing, may not be the best of the things&No good thing ever dies!"

My parents got us through the worst times of our lives; I only wish that I could ever match what they did for us!"