London, July 13: It is a common situation in almost every household that parents want their wards to grow up to choose lucrative and respectful professions, like Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Architect etc.
Very few really ask their children what they want to do. Questions like “What do you want to be when you grow up” are often heard every once in a while.
But regardless of the uncanny responses that come (“I want to be a driver, bus conductor, police-man, barber, etc.”), their future career is actually already planned before hand by the parents. Lucrative “successful” careers, unlike that of a barber, or any of the others mentioned above.
Parents have to understand that their attitude can destroy their child’s life. They have to understand that pursuing a so-called “successful” career and making money isn’t everything. Values of honesty, integrity and respect are much more important.
The famous saying by Martin Luther King maybe cited here, where he once said that if someone was even to be a street sweeper, he should try and be the best in his job, like Michelangelo painting, Beethoven composing music or Shakespeare writing poetry, so that even the Heavens would pause and say “here is a man who did his job well!”
–Agencies–