Among the various gifts of nature, parents are paramount. Parents can be termed as the gifts of nature in the sense that, everything can be changed in this world but parents can’t be changed or exchanged. When there is a fusion or a good coherence between parents and ward/ wards it leads to a happy family. Good care of the wards by the parents is the gateway to the all-round development of their ward/ wards. Thus, there is a chicken and an egg relationship between parents and their ward/wards. No one is independent of each other and in the same vein, both are dependent on the other.
The same yardstick applies to me and my parents. The greatest voidness of my life is that being a bachelor, I have lost my mother Late Ira Borah in 2007. My mother and her affections lie now only in my memories. I find now everything in this world except in my mother’s lap. This voidness of my life is truly and to a large extent is fulfilled by my father. Nothing can replace the affection of a mother or in other words the blessings of a mother to her son/daughter. At the same time when a son like me is courageous enough to use the word like “my father can truly to a large extent fill the voidness of my life to a large extent”, then I am as a son as well as a human being is truly talking about the world’s best father.
If the adversities of my life are the challenges of my life then, my father always tries to act as a true shadow of my feelings and emotions to march ahead and thereby face the challenges of my life. He calls me his stick in this old age of his (he is officially 82 years old) At the same time, I consider his person, as a whole, to be the pillar of the life along or around which my whole life revolves and rotates around. Therefore, his calling me or myself as an old person’s (which is he) stick is only, I consider a similitude and it is a greatness of his personality.
Let me give a short introduction to my father (whom I from the core of my heart consider being the world’s best father). My father, ShreeDuti Ram Borah was born on August 1, 1938, in Village- Athgaon of Revenue Circle – Dhing of the Nagaon District of the State of Assam. His parents were Late Radha Kanta Borah (his father and an agriculturist) and Late Patani Borah (his mother and a house-wife). There were nine siblings in his family in his ancestral village Athgaon in Dhing. Some of my uncles and aunts have left for heavenly abode, but what has left behind are their fond memories. Coming, specifically to my father, he is an outspoken, honest, and a highly sincere and dedicated person throughout his life. He is a troubleshooter in his personal life. That is also another aspect of his great personality.
At this juncture, I would like to pinpoint a particular trait of his character. My father, Shree Duti Ram Borah is a vivid reader. At this old age of his, he regularly reads three newspapers. He not only reads them but also analyzes and introspect about the various aspects of the worldly affairs with his family members. The priority, that the person gets in this regard is his younger son i.e., myself. My somewhat little literary journey as well as my whole intellectual curiosity is a tribute to his leadership quality. My academic life as well as my whole personality has a highly influential effect on my father. Today, what I am and, what I have achieved in my life are a direct corollary to him and his intellect. Therefore, as a whole, he is both an influential father as well as the world’s best father.
As far as his professional life is concerned, he was an employee of the Northeast Frontier Railway, Maligaon, Headquarters in Guwahati itself and he retired from a Government job on 31/07/1996 as a head clerk. At present settled in the village- Gotanagar, P.O.- Maligaon, District-Kamrup (Metro), Guwahati by winning a hard-fought struggle fighting against all odds and thereby constructing his own Assam type house by buying a plot of land. He has helped many in his life and he always followed the mantra of ‘helping an individual is a gateway to helping humanity’. Like my father, I imbibed the trait of punctuality, dedication, affection, and love for all the floras and the faunas of this world from him. Thus, in a nutshell, my whole personality is a direct gift from my parents. In this regard, my father has a spearheading role in it. That’s why I consider him to be my role model and as the world’s best father.
I compare our lives (that is, of myself and my father) from birth till date like the rising sun and the elongating shadow as the day progresses(here day is the similitude for the progressing lives of ours). At last, I pray to the Almighty that let there be sunshine and brightness all around us, that is in my life, as well as, that of the world’s best father which is my father namely again, Shree Duti Ram Borah. Come let us jointly pray to God that, let darkness and adversities may remain an aligned factor in our lives. I would also like to pray before the Almighty that let his health, wealth, and all-around development never fades and he for eternity remains the world’s best father.
