Thanking my son for not taking me away from my mother

My son was born in England, which is because my wife is a British citizen. But he had all his education in India, and that too in schools where children of most others like me ( teachers, average, farymers, govt employees etc.) study. Up to fifth , he studies in a small private school run in a smalll private house ....Later, he managed to get Luckily, he is doing what he always wanted to do: flying a plane. ( I don't know how many here would believe that the people I have always worked with never even knew what my son was doing nor where he is working now. True, I am not a leader. But many people - including some in my own family -- always thought I could have given my son a better education -- perhaps Sanawar if not Doon --and/ or could have ensured that he did not have to remain unemployed for years even after being fully qualified for a job. But I gave him an advantage which only I could have given him: my mother as a role model and my father as a motivation. There were times he would get frustrated or feel low, seriously believing that either his father's political affiliation or his British birth was a handicap...But I kept faith in life and even in the system, and I am grateful he can now fly without needing to borrow his father's weak wings. I know this requires the kind of stubborn-ness that my mother and father gave me - there were times when I thought he might have to work at some reasonable shop or departmental store, or own one of his own, or at best, perhaps, work on the few ancestral acres which I own or may be go to England and try his luck there. But life has really been kind, as it has always been to me. ....and I am grateful as much to life as to my father and mother for not teaching me short-cuts, and also to my son for never asking me to bargain my simple inheritance- for tempting toys of the world. Nor has his mother) Inder Sarai...This is only partly relevant here, but not irrelevant at all...My son was born in England, which is because my wife is a British citizen. But he had all his education in India, and that too in schools where children of most others like me ( teachers, average, farmers, govt. employees etc.) study. Up to fifth , he studies in a small private school run in a smalll private house ....Later, he managed to get Luckily, he is doing what he always wanted to do: flying a plane. ( I don't know how many here would believe that the people I have always worked with never even knew what my son was doing nor where he is working now. True, I am not a leader. But many people - including some in my own family -- always thought I could have given my son a better education -- perhaps Sanawar if not Doon --and/ or could have ensured that he did not have to remain unemployed for years even after being fully qualified for a job. But I gave him an advantage which only I could have given him: my mother as a role model and my father as a motivation. There were times he would get frustrated or feel low, seriously believing that either his father's political affiliation or his British birth was a handicap...But I kept faith in life and even in the system, and I am grateful he can now fly without needing to borrow his father's weak wings. I know this requires the kind of stubborn-ness that my mother and father gave me - there were times when I thought he might have to work at some reasonable shop or departmental store, or own one of his own, or at best, perhaps, work on the few ancestral acres which I own or may be go to England and try his luck there. But life has really been kind, as it has always been to me. ....and I am grateful as much to life as to my father and mother for not teaching me short-cuts, and also to my son for never asking me to exchange my simple inheritance for tempting and impressive toys of the world. ) May 25, 2013 Sunnymindcaves Caves ( Harcharan Bains)