Licking at the lollipop the
little boy asked,
“Can I become a cricketer?”
Said the boy’s mother to her
little son.
“Well, that you can,” her voice
well masked!
“Thank you’, said the young lad
gleefully.
“But, hold on for a second
more,”
She had something coming her
son’s way!
“After completing an
engineering degree fully!”
“But then I would be an
engineer,” he protested.
“And not a cricketer!”
“To be a cricketer you have to
be an engineer!”
Exclaimed the mother, which the
boy detested.
“Well, then I can be a singer
as I can sing very well!”
Innocence brimming in his
voice.
"Well for that you have to be a
doctor first.”
His mother’s words, in his
mind, caused a pell-mell!
Now the boy wanted to know his
mother’s views
On the varied professions.
“What should I couple an acting
career with?”
“This house will not be home to
make-up hues!”
Boomed his father’s voice from
behind the newspaper.
Followed by a deafening silence.
“An artist sounds like a
mid-path career, dad”
“Architect,” declared the little
boy’s career-shaper!
A few years passed and the
little boy was all grown up.
“Engineering, it will be,”
He declared to his father in
a resigned tone.
“Well, that is the end of the
big storm in the tea cup!”
Mused his father, a broad smile
adorning his aging lips.
“Dreams bloom thus!”
Not realising that his son was
never allowed to dream,
His father proudly held the tea
cup and took few hot sips!
More years had lapsed
before the little boy graduated.
“My son is an engineer,”
Declared the proud father to
everyone that he met!
He called his young man to
discuss his future, unabated!
“What are your plans for your
future, dear young man?”
The father was brimming with
pride.
“I have decided not to waste
time thinking about it.
As you must have done my thinking long
back, old man!”
His son’s voice echoed with
sarcasm and bitterness!
That stunned his father.
“I did all this for your good
and nothing else,
“All along you wanted to think
for yourself, I guess,”
His father asked him, finally,
what his passion was,
As he saw his son as a man!
“I need some time to introspect
before I decide.
And your advice shall be my strength,”
he said after a pause!
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