He had a beautiful family. However, he took them for granted. He had two sons and they worshipped him like God. He had a faithful and dedicated wife, but he always treated her badly. Never asked her with love, how have you been doing. He was rich and he always thought that I am providing for her food and shelter, why would there be any problem? He also thought that his children love him and respect him because he was able to provide them with everything. The more he expressed his thoughts occasionally, more they started to drift away emotionally. His wife was illiterate but she had good spiritual knowledge and she always tried giving right values to her children. Still we shall reap what we sow. As he treated her badly, she left him after 40 years of marriage and she started living in a small apartment out of her savings. She started teaching Bhagwad Gita and started making her living with that. HEr two sons also shifted and the gentleman was alone at the age of 65. He was feeling bad, that I have done so much for my family and they left me. His son said only one thing, what’s bothering you. You have everything, all the money, servants and good food. Why you should have any problem! That was the point he started realizing that he never valued his family and now he did not have his family.
God blessed us with unconditional love and support in the form of family. Sometimes, even the most broken families come together to support each other on the name of the family. Be grateful. Be happy. Value them. Take care of each other. Value each other’s emotions. Share love. Share sorrows. Share everything. When we have family together, bad times do not appear so bad and happy times expands. Value your family and also know that we will always have every kind of people in the family. They will have different thought processes and they will do a few things to each other but still accept them, guide them and love them.
