My father, Papa, friend, benefactor, guide, philosopher, gopher, sounding board, mentor and above all; the only person in the world I always looked to emulate and aspired to be like.....
I only begun to realise what you meant to me and where our relationship with each other was taking us when I lost you for good in an abrupt and least expected fashion or manner on the fateful morn of September 7, 2012......
Your irrepairable and irreplaceable loss has just about begun to sink in and created a huge void or chasm that will never be filled till my dying breath; as the wise ones who preceded us have said; there was so much left unsaid, so much that I wanted to share with you and tell you, but now I will never get that golden opportunity again.....
Death certainly is the greatest leveller of them all and teaches us the futility of gloating over trivial material acquisitions and tom tomming our pitiable achievements (?), if any , but you were a real "KARMAYOGI" in the truest sense of the term, always there for people who needed you and more importantly there for people who pretended not to need you.....
Mourning your death and departure from this materialistic and highly self-centric world would be rendering you the greatest dis-service that can be and remembering you as a shrivelled up human being who seemed to have shrunk in death the greatest travesty of them all; I, your son, progeny, and inheritor of your noble legacy want to celebrate your life, times and triumphs as a selfless human being and mentor......
If senseless and pea brained people question my motives and ask questions about why I am not grieving your loss, so be it, I pardon these shallow unfeeling people who cannot even begin to understand what you meant to me and while I know that reducing your towering stature to a few words or paragraphs is an exercise in futility, I need to carry out this exercise in order to release some of the pent up frustration and angst that has steadily been building up inside me ever since the cruel hands of fate snatched you away without as much as a whisper of apology from our midst......
Please continue to guide me through the remainder of my life like you have been doing thus far and enable me to strive to become even half the luminary you were.....
Goodbye Papa, may your soul rest in peace and do continue to make heaven a better place to live in by the sheer dint of your presence and your unique qualities that I hope I have inherited.........
I only begun to realise what you meant to me and where our relationship with each other was taking us when I lost you for good in an abrupt and least expected fashion or manner on the fateful morn of September 7, 2012......
Your irrepairable and irreplaceable loss has just about begun to sink in and created a huge void or chasm that will never be filled till my dying breath; as the wise ones who preceded us have said; there was so much left unsaid, so much that I wanted to share with you and tell you, but now I will never get that golden opportunity again.....
Death certainly is the greatest leveller of them all and teaches us the futility of gloating over trivial material acquisitions and tom tomming our pitiable achievements (?), if any , but you were a real "KARMAYOGI" in the truest sense of the term, always there for people who needed you and more importantly there for people who pretended not to need you.....
Mourning your death and departure from this materialistic and highly self-centric world would be rendering you the greatest dis-service that can be and remembering you as a shrivelled up human being who seemed to have shrunk in death the greatest travesty of them all; I, your son, progeny, and inheritor of your noble legacy want to celebrate your life, times and triumphs as a selfless human being and mentor......
If senseless and pea brained people question my motives and ask questions about why I am not grieving your loss, so be it, I pardon these shallow unfeeling people who cannot even begin to understand what you meant to me and while I know that reducing your towering stature to a few words or paragraphs is an exercise in futility, I need to carry out this exercise in order to release some of the pent up frustration and angst that has steadily been building up inside me ever since the cruel hands of fate snatched you away without as much as a whisper of apology from our midst......
Please continue to guide me through the remainder of my life like you have been doing thus far and enable me to strive to become even half the luminary you were.....
Goodbye Papa, may your soul rest in peace and do continue to make heaven a better place to live in by the sheer dint of your presence and your unique qualities that I hope I have inherited.........
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