Saturday, April 28, 2012

The need to be steadfast........

My friend and his wife used to go through magazines, did umpteen market surveys in addition
to assimilating experiences and opinions of the others regarding the setting up of their new home.
Be it the colour schemes for the internal and external painting of their house, the furniture, the soft
furnishings or the knick knacks to be placed at vantage positions were thoughtfully gone through
and the house was got ready just a couple of weeks back.

We'd visited their house and were thoroughly impressed by the way the things were set up - every
aspect showed the couple's meticulous and thoughtful moves. It was indeed their 'dream nest' as
they called it. But alas, the idyllic situation was not to remain for long.

Their son, working in the US, had fetched up on a short break. The brash young man found fault
with everything that his parents had so painstakingly accomplished. On his diktat, the existing fur-
niture were substituted with branded ones, the soft furnishings are being changed to suit the young
man's taste.

His parents aren't complaining but their pain is palpable to a few of us, who know them well. I'm
angry with them for the changes that they've made, incurring wasteful expenditure - for their inability
to tell their son that he needed to accept their choice and decisions! 

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