Happy anniversary

Dear Mom and dad,

I know most probably you will never read it however I did want to write it for you. You have today completed 39 years of being together with each other. Congratulations! I hope both of you have many more years like this together and whenever it is time to go I hope it is not too far away from each other.

I know you have lived a happy and fulfilling life with a complete family and both of you have worked hard everyday of your life to meet expectations from each side whether it was each of your parents and of course your children. I know you made sacrifices along the way everyday however you will never regret them because you achieved all your most important goals. I sometimes today wonder where you got so much of energy to do all that i am half your age today and get drained out so easily. How both of you used to walk in the sun to save some money, how everything was made at home to avoid spending it t outside.

You gave both didi and myself the best of education, mom chose not to work so that grandparents were well taken care of. For years you did not sleep full nights to be with grandparents when they were ill. In the last moments you were there for each one of them. However you ensured none of the burden shifted onto didi or myself so that our studies did not get impacted. You loved us without pampering us to keep our feet grounded. I wonder how you found the right balance between letting us enjoy and being strict? How you figured the balance as we kept growing? How u found the faith to let us fly on our own one day? I am sure the realization that your little birdies were ready to fly out of the nest must have hurt you...I am sure it must have worried you like hell, if we would survive our tests, but then i am proud of you for having the courage of letting go of us.

I don't know if i will ever be able to express all that i feel for you. Despite the number of disagreements i have with you, the number of times when I take you for granted and do not talk to you i love both of you a lot...thank you so much for being my parents...