Hello everybody, writing a blog post after pretty long. I had been fortunate enough to find time amidst boring college lectures to try my hand at run of\u00a0the\u00a0mill balladry here and there to keep my creative venture \u201cI Believe That\u201d thriving. It\u2019s time for a write up now, an emotional one this time. As it is titled-\u201cFather\u2019s Womb\u201d, it has got something, rather everything to do with Fathers. The very next word in the title womb might just have left you dazzled. Womb is not the word you often find coupled with Fathers. But through this blog post I would attempt to do that. Womb conventionally means a part of Mother\u2019s body where the child develops in for 9 months. Womb conventionally means that part of mother\u2019s body which shields the developing foetus, nurtures it and develops it physically as well as mentally. To put it in a nut shell womb is something due to which child develops in entirety and is responsible for its existence. Now, what has womb got to do with fathers? I am well aware of the fact that fathers don\u2019t have one physically and there has been no genetic invention in the recent times too to affirm that they can have one. Jokes apart though not internally, externally fathers do possess such an aura for their children that it almost serves as a womb. How? This blog post of mine will try to convince you about it and at the end of the blog post you too might end up saying YES, WE BELIEVE THAT.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get to the first point which a womb provides a child-STRENGTH. In case of mothers, a mother\u2019s womb provides physical strength to the kid. But what about Father\u2019s Womb? Yes Father\u2019s womb too provides strength to the kid- it\u2019s the mental strength, the moral strength I am talking about. When his father is around, a kid finds himself the safest creature on the planet. When his father is beside, a kid finds himself as strong and powerful as Alexander. I\u2019ve been talking this just on the basis of memoirs I\u2019ve had. Just a simple testimony to share here.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been a great Kite-flying buff right from my childhood, unsurprisingly I\u2019ve inherited the Kite-flying mania from my father. There would be times even today (when I\u2019m 19 year old) when on the Uttrayan Day (Kite Flying Day); my kites wouldn\u2019t be performing well in the sky. Needless to cite that it would add to my disappointment and frustration on the festive day. But it has been an equivalent miraculous fact that the moment I find my father by my side, holding my thread yarn I would suddenly get such an outburst of vigour and zest in my veins that I would then feel like conquering the fathomless sky at once. Then my kites would sway in the boundless blue battlefield, defeating other kites and departing them back to the ground, conveying that it was a Kite-flying maestro\u2019s son who had dismantled it from its thread. This was a very small example of the mystical aura that fathers have. Even in my Interschool competition, seeing my father sitting in the audience would kind of fortify me of any fear induced due the competitive atmosphere or any kind of nervousness thereby helping me perform to my optimum. It was in the presence of my father that I had delivered my first Interschool Speech and today so many people know me as an eloquent orator. Such has been the aura of my dad. I remember during my Interschools in which my father has accompanied me, whenever I was nervous, unsure with uncertainty brewing all over, the moment I would see my father in the audience, my deflated chest would puff an inch more, the eyes that would be looking down lacking courage would raise with self-belief seeing the confidence in the pupil of eyes of that one special man in the audience and the voice which previously lacked conviction would then sound\u00a0\u201cN\u201d decibels stronger. In case of mother, the womb has the physical aspect, but in case of fathers, it\u2019s just the presence which makes all the difference!! Such expedient is a father\u2019s womb!<\/p>\n

Second characteristic of the womb is connectivity. While the child is in its mother\u2019s womb, it is connected to the mother\u2019s body via umbilical cord. Father\u2019s womb has been a little unfortunate in this case. A mother bears her child in her womb for 9 months and is privileged to spend the maximum time with the kid. The father\u2019s aren\u2019t! Although willing, fathers cannot give their time to the kid. The father\u2019s womb requires the father to be separate from the kid. The womb requires the father to slog in the monotonous office hours for the sake of proper and happy development of the kid. On one hand where the mother takes nutritious food for the nourishment of the child, it\u2019s the father on the other hand who goes through the painstaking hours in the office for the better future of his child.\u00a0 A father bears this disjunction all in his kid\u2019s name, in the name of his kid\u2019s future. Togetherness with the child is as dear to the father as it is to a mother. But a father compromises this separation all in his kid\u2019s name, all in the name of his kid\u2019s comfort. Such benevolent is a father\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n

Third virtue a womb posses is tolerance. In case of mother\u2019s womb, the womb has to withstand the pressure to bear the baby for nine months. Not only this, the excruciating pain the womb goes through at the time of a child\u2019s delivery is beyond imagination. To sum up, what does the womb get? Nothing. It provided nutrition, shelter and shield to the kid for 9 months and all it got in return is pain. So is the father\u2019s womb. Father\u2019s womb from my perspective has never been fortunate enough to receive equivalent amount of reciprocation from the child. Fathers have always been accused of being workaholic or being more inclined to work and less to family regardless of understanding that the place where the father works isn\u2019t luring or lucrative but the gains which a father sees out of the work for his family is surely more luring than anything else. Also in their youth, the kids out of their impulsiveness and the warmth in their blood hurl such sentences at their fathers which instead of caressing the womb hurt it. A very common example I would give is career prospects. Every son (including me) expresses a desire and hence claims to his father that he would have a better paying job and a better enterprise than his father has. But in his impulsiveness the kid forgets a very stark chronicle that \u201cHe is trying to surpass the scale even before scaling the scale<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. But the father\u2019s womb takes it all with a smile. For it\u2019s in the name of his kid… Such complaisant and absolving is a father\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n

All said and done to harp the magnanimity of father\u2019s womb would be less. Any verbal, literary, worldly or celestial reciprocation will be a too petite in return to his devotion, dedication and love for me.<\/em><\/strong> I have seen a lot of literature in different languages about mother\u2019s womb but none on father. There is a saying in Gujarati \u2018Jya na pahonche Ravi Tya pahonche kavi\u201d (Where even the sunlight cannot reach, a poet can reach). But this is one area which the poets couldn\u2019t approach. Father\u2019s womb has been a subject which has been deprived of magnum opuses in literature. It\u2019s greatness is no less. Where mother\u2019s womb takes it physically, a father\u2019s takes it\u2019s mentally and morally. Through this blog post of mine I convey my sincere gratitude to all the fathers for being the silent heros and silent angels of all times. I dedicate this blog post to all fathers and especially my father. It\u2019s not just a mother\u2019s but it\u2019s also a FATHER\u2019s WOMB.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

P.S. Daddy I don\u2019t want to end this blog post with clich\u00e9d lines like \u201cMy dad is the greatest” and stuff. Because I believe there hasn\u2019t been an adjective formed yet in the language I\u2019m writing whose epithetical effect would bestow deserved reverence on you.<\/p>\n

Thanks & Regards,<\/p>\n

Anish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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