He asked me this time as I was busy in finishing one of my house construction work in the hometown. He asked me how many houses do we have? At some point of time in life I had asked this question to myself (and not to my father, as we were scared of him)why we dont have a house of our own? why we dont have a decent living of our own? Yes, when I was in nayagarh, we had a very small house, may be 500 square feet house and six of us were living there. In Jatni we had an asbestos roofed house of same size and we lived there for long time, in puri, I had a decent house. So it was always a question, why we dont have?
Now my son asked me the reverse question, why do we have more than one house? The boy over hears my investments and asked this innocent question. It gave me a jolt but I understand that these houses are being made for him so that he can have a comfortable living and when required he can sell them and also plan something new. This is for him that I am making my life as a machine and building his future. I think every father does that and every father wants to see that the child is doing well before he dies. I think man can not beat death but tries to win over death by being a part in the life of his child. Thats how we become immortal.
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