11/02/2025
So true ….
Just as today you look at your parents, one day your children will look at you.
Life doesn’t punish — it simply returns what you plant in it.
And many times, what we sow without realizing it is what weighs the most when it comes back to us.
If today your parents feel like a burden, if their voices irritate you, if their slow steps make you impatient — remember that the little eyes watching you every day are learning from you how to treat those who gave us life.
Children don’t listen to speeches — they imitate gestures.
They don’t follow advice — they follow examples.
If your parents always end up last on your list of priorities, if you answer their calls with reluctance, if you visit them only “when you have time,” then don’t be surprised when your children do the same to you tomorrow.
Because what you’re showing them today is the “normal” they will repeat in the future.
Parents — with their silences, their wrinkles, their weariness — remind us that once they were everything to us, that they held us when we couldn’t walk, that they listened when no one else understood our tears.
And yet, how often we repay them with indifference, hurry, and excuses.
Today you are a child; tomorrow you will be a parent.
Today you have the chance to give a hug; tomorrow you will beg for one with all your soul.
And in that moment, you’ll painfully understand that the love you didn’t give in time never comes back — that the patience you denied will be the same you’ll one day long for — and that the example you leave behind will become the inheritance your children carry.
That’s why you must respect, care for, and love your parents while you still have them.
Not because they demand it, but because that is the greatest legacy you can leave your children: to teach them that gratitude and love do not expire with age.
That parents are not a burden — they are the root of who we are.
And when your old age arrives — when your steps slow and your words repeat — then you will know that the love you gave will be the love returned to you.
Because in life, what you sow in your parents… you will reap in your children.