By: Mehrullah Akhtar
Grandma asked me, “My cutest beta, why don’t you take time and come to see me? You know that I am old and it is a tough task for me to come in your home to see you.” I replied quickly, “Mom, you know I am very busy with my study and works.”
Tears shed from her eyes and she said sadly, “OK, my son, you need to know, I am all time worried to think about you and I don’t feel relaxed when I don’t see you. Negative thoughts start wandering in my mind whether my son is doing well or not and what is he doing?”
I smilingly said, “My lovely mom, now you need not to be worried about me because I am not a child and I can take care of myself very well. I know what is right and what is wrong.” “My son, though you are not a child but to me still you are a child till the last breathe of mine,” she replied softly.
Before I left my grandma, I said her farewell and started my walk toward my home. When I was about to take my 1st step, she asked me to wait and listen her words, so I did. She called me near her and asked me to sit beside her.
She suggested and advised me, “My son, you don’t know about the world because yet you have not experienced anything. You should take care of yourself, I want you to be protected, happy and successful. I hope you mark my words in your complete life. When someone says something to you, listen it carefully. If he tells you to do something, don’t directly do it. You should think whether the person’s said words are beneficial or he wants to take undue advantages of you.”
After taking a long breathe, she said once again “You should live your own life, don’t live the life what people want you to live. My last suggestion to you is that you should respect and behave in a good way to your elders, relatives, friends and teachers because your behavior defines who and what you are. Your words describe what kind of family you belong to. If you respect someone wholeheartedly, you get the same respect from others and from Allah the Almighty. Apart from this, you will be admired by everyone around you.” I replied with a smile, “OK mom, I will do the same and don’t be worried about anything.”
While starting my walk toward home, my eyes opened, I directly came to know, it was a dream with hundred lessons. When she was alive, I didn’t take time to visit her and never listened her. Today this is the reason that I am not happy with my life. If I had listened to her same words which she told me in my dream, today probably I was a successful person in this world.
I never respected my friends, relatives and teachers. Even I didn’t listen to their words whether they were saying about my goodness or not. After the dream, I realized the immense mistake of mine which I had done. We need to look after our grandparents when they are around us and we need to listen to their precious words because they have experienced the world, they know many things and know better than us. The words of theirs can lead us toward a life which we want. We need to take time for our beloved ones. As well as, we need to listen what we are being said and we need to know that our each act defines us and takes us away from our beloved.
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