Respect Your Parents

Respect Your Parents

An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along 

with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow 

perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, “What is this?” The Son replied “It 

is a crow”. After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 

2nd time, “What is this?” The Son said “Father, I have just 

now told you “It’s a crow”. After a little while, the old Father 

again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?” At this time 

some expression of irritation was felt in the Son’s tone when he 

said to his Father with a rebuff. “It’s a crow, a crow”.A little 

after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, 

“What is this?”

This time the Son shouted at his Father, “Why do you keep 

asking me the same question again and again, although I have 

told you so many times ‘IT IS A CROW’. Are you not able to 

understand this?”

A little later the Father went to his room and came back with 

an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son 

was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that 

page. When the son read it, the following words were written in

 the diary :-

“Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the 

sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 

23 times what it was, and I replied to him all 23 times that it 

was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the

 same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel

 irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child”.

While the little child asked him 23 times “What is this”, the 

Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all

 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same 

question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed. So..

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at 

them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, 

obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your 

parents.From today say this aloud, “I want to see my parents

 happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little

 child. They have always showered their selfless love on me.

They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the 

storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society 

today”. Say a prayer to God, “I will serve my old parents in the

 BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear 

parents, no matter how they behave.

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