How To Impress Your Parents

Coming from a rural background, I want to talk about ‘How to Impress Your Parents?’. Let's start with the 70s-80s when parents used to send their sons for physical labour and daughters to fetch water from a nearby well which is at least 500 km away from the village. The children obeyed them so they could escape from getting caned.

Whenever their children do their tasks well, they go like ‘’Oh My God!” like they have just discovered Newton's Sixth Law Of Motion. Now back to our present, where you just need to score 720/720 in the NEET UG and 800/800 in the NEET PG and 360/360 in the JEE. You also need to complete some sidequests like getting nominated for the Oscars and shortlisted for the Bharat Ratna. Pretty simple things to impress your parents a.k.a owners.

Problems start boiling when there are siblings in the family. They have a Cold War between them like the US and the Soviet Union, fighting to prove who is a worthy son or daughter in the battle of impressing their parents . If Mom praises the younger one, the elder one will turn into a jealous volcano and vice versa. But if Dad scolds the elder one, suddenly there’s a “beautiful sibling bond”- because nobody wants to suffer alone.

To be frank, in the world of impressing your parents you just lose yourself in pressure.

Jokes apart, you don’t need marks or an application to Oxford or a job at Deloitte to impress your parents. You just need deep love, devotion, and complete dedication for his parents just like Shravan Kumar from Ramayana who took care of his parents’ needs, gave them food and support, carried them on his shoulders in baskets to take them on pilgrimage and obeyed them with respect and never complained although they were blind.

So keep impressing your parents like this and maintain your aura forever and ever.

-Signing off

Newlin Joel Arulbabu

Written by: Newlin Joel Arulbabu