by Ali Hashmi

Created on: June 08, 2009   Last Updated: June 09, 2009

We have heard a lot of the sage and compact sayings "Like father, like son"; well I do believe in it now because I have evolved now and discovered that i am just a lot like my dad.

To begin with, It is not only the physical characteristics and genes that you inherit from him, but also the attributes that one day brings you to manhood. Qualities like determination and tolerance, without which the concept of the survival the fittest would seem bizarre and absurd. Just as a lion teaches his cubs to prey likewise it is father who teaches his son the tactics to survive and prosper in the harsh world out there.

Of the myriads of relationships that God has conferred upon man when he is born, the father son relationship is inevitably the strongest and often, the most silent too.Perhaps the human evolution gave birth to a clandestine language that exists between the duo that is independent of gestures, and wordy speeches. Much is understood in silence.

The father and son together make up a great company for quite a long time; going on fishing, camping, heated discussions on whose right and whose wrong, trying to discover the recipe to make just the right barbecue and not to forget, glued to the television screen for a wrestling match and not heeding to the mother's calls for the dinner. Much of the experience and crux of the old man's life is hardwired into you silently in the few moments spent together and you are not expected to be grateful to him in return for all that.

Every father wants to see his son flourish and perform well than what he did in his youth. Moreover, where mothers disallow, fathers encourage their sons to take risks, seek adventures and get the most out of their energy reservoirs. This daring move is only to allow you to learn from yourself, to learn from your mistakes and moreover, to enable you to perform a self analysis of yourself without intervention of the ones around. This is what turns a boy into a man. A father ensures that before he gets habitual of the grandpa rocking chair he can transfer all of his experience into his boy.

If it were not for father, life in the external would have been very turbulent and unproductive. The strong gusts of hardships would have uprooted me at ease. But I am grateful to God that he has bestowed me with a guardian angel who would get out of his way to help me to become the man I am today. We surely owe a much greater part of what we learn in our lives to our fathers.

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