A son and daughter-in-law came to drop their ailing father to an old age home, the video of which went viral. There a woman asked her son, “Why are you abandoning the one who taught you how to walk today?” This touching moment sparked a debate on social media about the duties of children.
Sometimes some questions kill the listener. When the video of one such moment was shared on social media, the viewers were heartbroken. A son and daughter-in-law had come to drop their ailing father, who could neither walk nor eat properly, to an old age home. The questions asked by a woman there pierced the hearts of even social media users.
who taught us to walk
The video begins with the son and his wife bringing their old and ailing father to a room in the old age home. They somehow make him sit on a bed in the room. Then a woman from the old age home asks some questions to her son. “Who made you capable of earning a living? Who taught you to walk on your own feet?” The son had only one answer to the woman’s questions, ‘Father’.
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Today father, tomorrow son
“If he taught you everything, can’t you hold his hand today when he can’t walk properly? Why are you leaving him here when he needs you the most?” Hearing this question of the woman from his son, the father is seen in the video wiping his eyes. The son becomes silent after hearing the questions and taunts. But the woman does not stop here. She also shows the son his future, ‘Tomorrow when your own children will do this to you, when you will be in the place where your father is today, and they will leave you behind, try to feel that pain also.’
duty or practicality
More than three and a half lakh people have watched this video so far. Many people shared it again and again and some wrote their thoughts emotionally. Many people wrote that it is the responsibility of every child to take care of old parents. One user wrote that people who abandon their parents deserve a special place in hell. At the same time, some people asked to think practically. Some raised the question that if both the son and the daughter-in-law work, who will take care of them during the day? After this a long debate broke out regarding duty, mercy and practicality.