Even though he is a qualified engineer, he took a clerical job with a nationalised bank because it paid him better than an engineering job in a private firm. And at that time money mattered more than the nature of the job. In spite of his engineering background he knows more about banking than people with a commerce background. No surprise he retired as a Senior Executive. He knows more about the financial markets than the financial consultants who come home. He could and still can answer most of my questions. I sometime gets scared if i'll be able to answer all the questions my future kid(s) is/are going to pose and then i realise that i have the power of Internet.
Anybody with a normal upbringing thinks his or her father is the best. The same holds true for me. Another thing that makes my really happy is the fact that all my close friends think my father is cool. If your friends think your father is cool, he has to be cool. Not that i didn't know it already but nothing like hearing it straight from the horse's mouth. How many of your friends think your father is cool?
There are a hazaar reasons why i consider my dad the best, but here are a few that top the list:
- When he found out that i wasn't interested in Engineering, he asked me to drop out and pursue whatever else interested me, even though i had already spent two years in engineering by then.
- When i was flunking and getting bad grades in Engineering and was mentally at my lowest point ever, instead trying to reason out why his son with an above average IQ was getting bad grades, he sat next to me, put his arm around my shoulder, and told me that i was his son and no matter what he will always be proud of me.
- He never once thought i'd amount to nothing. Even when i used think so.
- He is a very practical man and looks at things and addresses situations with a positive attitude.
I love my Dad and i'll consider myself lucky if i turn out to be a small fraction of the man he is.
