Parents.
How well do we know them? The truth is, we cannot know anyone fully, not even ourselves. So how is it possible that we know our parents beyond the roles of our mother and father? They are someone beyond those roles and deserve to be known as a person even by their children. Everyone should strive to respect them beyond their parenthood.
Here are a few things you can do with your parents that’ll help you to see them in a different light.
1. Visiting their alma mater along with them and listening to the stories of their college life.
The first time you see them at their alma mater you’ll think someday, you’ll also take your children to your college and live it all over again. They’ll be doing the same too. While showing you every nook and cranny of their college, they’re basically time traveling back to those glorious days and you can see it in their eyes.
2. Learning about the people who inspired them when they were young.
Their inspirations made them who they are today and what they value. Their inspirations can inspire you too, learning about them gives you an insight into what could be the thought process behind their personalities.
3. Geeting to know about the passions they nurtured in their 20s.
Their passions give you an idea of what they are besides their respective designations and lives. They could have a very different personality than their current job and their designations.
4. Reading the books they read as a kid.
The books you read are the knob that opens the doors of your mind. The same must have happened to your parents when they were little. Reading the same books as your parents did some time will bring your minds closer and you’ll understand them better. Their books could be the heritage they are passing onto you.
5. Learning the circumstances they met each other.
Every love story is unique. So is theirs. They found their love, they’ll inspire you to find yours. 🙂
6. Visiting the place where they first held their full-time job.
What was their first job? What did they struggle with then? How was it? Did they enjoy it? Did they hate it? How was their experience? The answers to all these questions will help you to cope with your own first job and the next ones to come.
7. Playing their favorite sport along with them.
Sports is a big way to bond. You learn about sportsmanship and really understand what your parents must’ve been as a youthful, young player in the confines of the sport which is almost a meditative passion for them.
8. Listening to the stories from their school.
These are the best. 😀 The quirky friends, the funny teachers, the strict PT sir, the ridiculous Principal, don’t we all we have these stories?
9. Meeting their friends and listening to the stories of their shenanigans.
This is the time it really dawns on you that they are more than just your father and your mother. Their skills beyond these roles were witnessed by these angels they have for friends and you get to see them reminisce all those memories. How priceless!
10. Getting to know the story of your own birth through their eyes.
What could be a more fun to bond your parents than the story of how you, the apple of their eye, were born? 😀
11. Getting to know about the time their heart broke for the first time.
It’s a tough time for everyone. So it was for your parents. And they came along to the happiness of being together and having you. It’s a story of a journey worth listening to.
12. Getting to know what they think their parents.
Their relation with their parents cannot be less than mesmerizing. Exactly like yours but still so different! Surreality is what this is called.
13. Visiting the house they lived as a child if it still exists, and if not, visiting the locality at least.
Live vicariously through their narrations of the entire place and imagine them standing there on the road in front of the house clutching a bat waiting for the ball to be hurled towards them, protecting the makeshift wicket behind them. Did you just smile while reading this? 🙂
14. Getting to know about their hardest struggle and how they came over it.
Their struggles were no less than your own. Learn from their success as well as their mistakes.
15. Geeting to see their unfulfilled dreams through their words.
You don’t have to live the dream, but at least, realize that they dreamt too. They’re not tyrannous as they may seem and they were right where you are in your life, dealt with similar if not the same problems and tried to emerge as victorious as they could.
