My Father: The Hope of My Life

I really don't know that today is fathers' day till I see some posts on my Facebook wall. I have just gone through a video in Facebook on fathers day. It took me back to my relation with my dad. Yea, I'm gonna share my experience with my dad now. 

Since childhood, I used to spend most of time with my mother before and after school. There was more communication gap between me and my dad. Being a police officer, he used to have a very busy schedule and seldom he used to communicate with me and my brother. 

I had no proper communication with my dad in my childhood. He used to scold me for my silly mistakes and then used to try to bring me close to him, but I used to refuse. I used to sacre after seeing him. I remember him mostly with a serious facial expression and was like nothing can affect him in this world. Doesn't matter what the situation is, he used to be always rigid and unmoved. May be this is the reason why I never felt close to my dad in childhood. I think he used to worry that my friends would ruin me ;). 

 

Even my friends used to refuse to come to my home to play cricket. I want to mention an incident here. When I was in 7th standard, my friend gave his cricket bat to keep with me for a day. Those are the days when I was ignoring studies and turning my interest towards the game. My dad observed this and broke the bat in anger. I was scared. That's just one incident, but it is interest on me. He used to always worry about my future and even today, he will speak to me a couple of times on phone. He always seemed not emotional, but he is!

As I grew day by day, year by year, I have started understanding his sacrifices for my family. I was the same guy hating him in my childhood and loving him now. It's my dad who has solved all my problems, he is one who thought me what is right and what is wrong. He always tried to make us understand the responsibillities. I think that is how a father is supposed to be and that is the role of father in a child's life, to make us strong and independent. He performed his job well. It's our turn to move forward with the confidence he shared with us. May be, I too may be just like him after becoming dad! I don't know. 

Happy fathers day! Thanks for reading. Have a great day.

A day in the government school

Before moving to Hyderabad to join in ABN, I got a chance to spend some time with the school kids in the government school near to my home. Venkata Prashanth, one of my seniors in Engineering and also a close friend of mine is always interested in doing social service on behalf of his N.G.O Hope to needy, being a techie. I asked him to make me part of one of his social tasks like giving food to children, inspiring them by some motivational classes etc.

He remembered me and my word and gave a chance to be a part of his work. We have chosen a government school in Kadapa and have decided to provide lunch and exam accessories like pens and some sweets for the children. Prashanth bro have ordered some healthy food to supply for children as they will be served with poor lunch daily in government schools, which doesn't contain any nutrition elements in it. 

We have decided to do this on March 28th. Prashanth bro took the responsibility of distributing food and sweets to the school children. I took a laptop and started to give the power point presentation for the children on the great personalities like, Abdul Kalam, Sir C.V Raman, Sachin Tendulkar etc,. The children were so eager to learn the new things. Initially it was tough for us to manage them, but they have shown a lot of interest towards our presentation. They replied to our questions well, asked their doubts and got clarified.

There were around 200 children in the school. Their education facilities were too good as they have got very good teachers to teach and also school children were good in their studies. All they lack is basic needs in the school environment. That's the only difference between the corporate schools and government schools. It is not a tough job for the government to provide the basic need, of course it is doing, but there is no proper care for that.

Anyhow, it was a good day to remember. Thanks Prashant anna :)