On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
How many parents read the above passage? One in million ?
How many practiced it?
Can you ever think?
Otherwise our childhood would not have been the darkest arena of our life.
We may not have carried its burden till the out of courtesy the Nature have released us.
This story is not only of challenged bodies but majority of able bodied also.
Personally I suffered and watched my colleague's sufferings and pain.
Though human kind is trying to help us but it is too inadequate.
They give us glasses to see but no vision.
They give us crutches to walk but no co-passenger.
They us hearing aids but where are greeting?
What is solution?
There is no foolproof solution.
Counseling is a miniature ray of hope.
I have to do it.
This is not one man show.
Let us be together and give a little relief.
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