We doubt everything and everyone – the doctor who is most recommended, the neighbour who is so good to us, the maid who does an awesome job of keeping the house in order, even they aren’t spared from our doubting nature. We have developed this acute sense of doubt. He will respect and love the lowest in the social hierarchy as much as the highest in the social hierarchy.
Designations and financial standing would not be his criteria to decide how he would present himself to people. He will value people for who they are and not for what they are. That is how we build a world worth living, a world that makes us believe it isn’t a punishment.
He will trust them until they break his trust, repeatedly. If all goes well, here is what my son will grow up to be. Who my son grows up to be is a result of what we, as parents and grandparents, teach him and, more importantly, what he learns and follows. The correct focus would bring a huge difference of how we see the world and what we want to build it in future. The focus of the world is on all the ills and the disastrous events. And to start, I need to tell my son that what he sees happening in the world right now is not the wholesome picture. I would love to raise a mediocre child with great human values. My wife and I are very certain that we do not want a son who is mega successful professionally but lacks human values. What comes to fore is a lot of responsibility responsibility to provide the best possible and the responsibility to contribute to the world a great person. The nature of throwing caution to the wind during bachelorhood and the not-so-serious life as just a husband disappear. You develop feelings of sympathy, concern and affection for all children and people in general. You start looking at the world differently. Fatherhood brings about a very positive and much needed change in you. The conclusion? The world is not a place to live anymore and that our future is doomed. If anyone wanted some news and switched on a news channel, he would only see killings and more killings.
These are the only stories that news channels covered as well. Debates on religion, gun laws, stress in today’s world, etc. Weapons have ranged from guns to bombs to knives and, the most outrageous, a truck. In the past few days, almost on a daily basis, there have been instances of mass killings across the world.
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