‘The wheel is come full circle’

I believe in this. As they say, what goes around comes around. And it comes in most mundane and small things. I remember my sister and I teasing my mom when she could not find her reading glasses. We would tell her,’ you should have a pair of glasses to find your glasses.’ Today my sons say the same thing to me when I ask them to find my glasses for me.

It also comes in more serious matters. In India, we have the ‘karma’ theory. In other parts of the world they say, what you sow, you will reap. There are things we realize when we become parents. There are things that make sense to us in our forties. There are issues that hurt us and we remember we had hurt somebody.

Long back my mother told me, do good but don’t expect anything in return. It didn’t convince me. But as I grew, got married and had children, I understood what she said. What we do for our children is our duty. If they grow up and don’t respond, it is their choice or their problem. No expectations, no disappointment. But I am deviating from my basic issue.

The wheel comes full circle for every one. It is our choice to initiate a circle of help, support and cherishing the relationships or create a circle of strife and disappointment. A circle of hope, aspirations and love or a circle of complaints, agony and despair?

What do you think?