7 LIFE LESSONS FROM CELEBRITY PAPAS
Father's Day is here and all those who can, are busy gifting their daddy dearest. That's indeed an excellent method of expressing your love; but we sat down to think, what could be the best way to please your doting dad on “his own day”.
We concluded that following his advice, and listening to and executing on his suggestions would be the best return of his love and his care for you.
A mother’s sacrifices are well sung and heard of, but there are many single fathers in the world and they are excellent! We salute them!
To each child, their own father has imparted them with excellent knowledge, values, morals, life lessons, gifts, etc. but here are some celebrity daddies we all know (especially the movie buffs) whose cool advice is aww-dorable. Write to us if you know of more such celebrity advices on Father's Day, or if you know such amazingly cool single dads who deserve the crown of “Big Daddy Cool”.
Mufasa from “Lion King”: “Remember who you are. You are my son. You have forgotten yourself, and so you have forgotten me. You are more than what you have become.”
Chris Gartner from “Pursuit of Happyness”: “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it.”
Piscine Molitor from “Life of Pi”: “I suppose in the end, the whole life becomes an act of letting go. But what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say ‘goodbye’.”
Mahavir Singh Phogat from “Dangal”: “Until now, I regretted not having a son, for I assumed a gold medal could be won only by my son. What I completely forgot was that a gold medal does not differentiate between a boy or a girl. My daughters are no less than any man in the game of Wrestling.”
The essence of “Baaghban”: “One single well (parents) can accommodate the water from four wells (children). But four wells cannot accommodate water from one well! This is the irony of life.”
Robert Downey Jr. : “Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I want to be a real human being and that’s hard enough.”
Amitabh Bachchan: “At the end of the day, you are the only one who will have to face the consequences of your actions; so don’t let anyone else make any decisions for you.”
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And for those who aren’t movie buffs, grab a cuppa, curl up on your cosy sofa, perch on your elbows and pile these books for a visual treat:
- Letters from a Father to his Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Legacy: Letters from eminent parents to their daughters by Sudha Menon
- Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
And whether it's the screen or a book that catches your fancy, there is one thing that you absolutely must do on this day. As the lockdown has given you a lot of time with him, make the most of it and dip into the pool of knowledge that his life has provided him with. We're sure that you will emerge much wiser and happier at the end of it.