“A duo of weirdos”- is a story of two people whose relation is the most underrated relation in this
world, its a Father and son relation. It does not boast that protectiveness that a dad-
daughter relation does, or the intimacy a mother-son relation does, or the understanding that
mother-daughter relation has. A major share of this relation is expressed passively. Here
actions speak and express rather than words. It is a bond made by scolding, teaching, learning,
guiding and at rare times speaking your heart out.
When a boy is young, his father is his first teacher. He teaches him everything he knows and
works hard to make him a man worthy enough to be on his own in this world. He is there for his
boy as a support, teaching him to fight for his territory, to be strong and confident. He keeps his
distance and lets the boy live in illusion that whenever he stood victorious it was on his own.
Little he knows that his father stood behind him like a shadow supporting in ways he can never
imagine.
As the young boy grows into a man, the relation becomes more of a tug-of-war, a war of alphas.
The care becomes more passive and indirect. It’s not that this relation lacks emotion; they are
very well there but are not that freely or verbally expressed, like mothers do. The scold after
doing wrong is father’s way of saying that he is worried for you. His single “take care” has a
thousand “I love you, son” hidden in them. Even though at one point he himself was a boy but
little did he remember that for a boy father is irreplaceable, he lives his life with every moment
having same goal in mind, to make his father proud and to give him back the same love he
received from him.
And that is where the beauty of this relation lies, generations handing down love and care so
delicately and passively that the world never knows and sometimes even the receiver
doesn’t. Its not an easy task to describe about them in a single chapter as there are a lot of incidents that have taken place between them as the life went on. It is said “When a person’s child is born he is also reborn as he has to start over from base, he has to live each and every moment with his son till that son becomes a teenager.” This story is not meant to for anyone to realize anything. This is just a reality of a foolish boy who overestimated himself and committed many mistakes in his life and the only person to guide him and help him out in those situation was his father.
- Srivastav.
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