5 life lessons I learnt from my Dad

People who know me closely are aware of Tom & Jerry kind of relationship between me and my father. Off course no relationship is perfect and me and my papa is best example of that. Fighting, blaming, taunting, arguing, debating and stop talking are common events between us. Our relationship has a Kabhi-Khushi-Kabhi-Gam type of history but as I grew up I started accepting him the way he is and I realized that my papa is a jewel. I can learn several things from him. Its just that I’ve to deal with his quirkiness sometimes. List is long but here I want to share 5 most important things I learnt from him.

 Accepting simplicity as a lifestyle :-  Being born in TV era, as a kid I was also very influenced by the virtual world very far from reality. I had aspirations like having very good clothes and to be richest person on the planet so that I could buy all the luxuries for myself. But I am a transformed person now. I see my papa, he has very minimal necessities for survival and he never complaints regarding it. He wants to earn money so that he can invest more in his research rather than having unnecessary luxuries. Recently I have also started inculcating the habit of shunning my shopping cravings and use all my stuff to the maximum. I am really in love with this journey of being a minimalist. It helps me to save more and spend in right direction.                                                                            

Being Fearless :- This attribute I have inherited in maximum amount from my father. I don’t feel afraid of anything and I know that no one can stop me if decide to do something. My father taught me to speak up without fear when anything wrong is happening around. And yeah I have been in trouble several times for taking a stand but I’ll continue being me J. Being fearless taught me to confront truth no matter how hard it is to digest. I hardly lie and I love myself for this.

Caring for Environment :-  I avoid taking plastic bags from shop keepers, I try to control my water consumption, I try my level best to switch off electric appliances when not in use, I throw waste only in dustbins, I am against of celebrating festivals at cost of our environment, I believe in reduce, reuse and recycle. I strongly follow these things because my papa is an Environmentalist.. Can’t be more proud!! <3

Being Health Conscious :- I’ll choose health over wealth because I know how being in pink of health feels like. I believe in natural way of healing and avoiding any kind of disease in body or mind. Offcourse living in polluted cities make things worst. But I still have hopes to see empty hospitals and free doctors. Kind of idealistic!!! Thanks to papa.

Being passionate about one thing :- I have seen him having only one goal since I started to understand things and i.e to develop technology which can be beneficial for human race as well as our Environment. He is One Man Army of his Firm, “Environment and Ecology”. More than 30 years of his life he has dedicated to his research going through all odds. He is far from craving fame.. He just wants to leave the imprints of his work on lives of as many people possible. I really feel inspired by him. I am trying to be as focused as him in the aspect of what I want to do with my life.