Dear Dad..

A father-son relationship is never easy to comprehend unlike a father-daughter or a mother-son or a mother-daughter. Because this is between two men. And men never open up that easily to an another man. Maybe because most men are not emotional outwardly atleast, most of the time, although they have enough of it inwards stagnant like a dam behind the shutter doors. So you wont get to see the public display of affections or the cheesy moments but every essential emotion and feeling exists in an invisible spectrum which can only be sensed by subtle body languages or gestures. 

The gulf between a father and a son usually starts drifting in the early childhood of the son, when the father works tirelessly for the upliftment of his whole family. This can never be understood by the child for he wants his time with his dad. But as the son ascends up through his ages, he will understand the pains, his father had put in to bring the whole family to a respectable position in the society. 

Then in the school ages, a dad becomes the son’s hero, so easily and fittingly. But come the teen ages, he transforms into a villain, again easily but unfittingly. Because the dad sells his experiences to his son, so that the mistakes he committed doesn't get repeated in his son’s. But which son is precocious to understand a dad completely and without boundaries? These are turbulent times. But, a father shall never want his son to be a failure. That's what he desperately tries to avoid in his son’s life.

As the son reaches 20, the son slowly begins to understand the cruel world, he had lived in so far, under his father’s shadow. He sometimes wishes for the shadow to never end. Sometimes, he longs to protect his father under his shadow. He realizes how lucky he is to be born as a son to him. The villain tag slowly fades into that of an evergreen hero. 

But once the son gets married and becomes a father himself, that's when he truly understands the martyrdom of being a father. 

The respect, love, affection, care just grows exponentially with each stage of life and reaches a level beyond infinity and refuses to dust down.

Just because the two don't talk to each other, it doesn't mean what it implies. Rather it signifies a divine relationship. 

A father teaching you how to live, 

a mother showing you how to love and 

a sibling sharing you how to share 

is all you need when you arrive. 

Nothing else matters.