Won’t it be surprising that you can be The Best Dad in the world by providing your kid with the best education possible, best advice possible, and in general as much advantage as you can give them no matter how blood-drippingly hard it’s all to procure…

…and then realising that the biggest thing your kid will miss about you after your death is none of the above… but just the time you both spent watching some comedy, discussing politics of the day, some movies and sports?

How weirdly simple is that?

And it doesn’t just apply to your kids. It applies to everyone who you want to be seriously disappointed about your death.

Knowing this now, how will your interactions with these people change?

Some Jeeva P wrote a great piece on this topic. It will change your life:
Who do we miss the most?

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Whenever a son and a father talk to each other over things like the former’s exam, his career, his school bus, his mother, their interaction springs supposedly only from the nature of the roles they play – the father talks only as how a father must do and the son responds only appropriately as he must in return.

So mundane interactions like these do not leave an impact on the psyche of both.

Only when two people discuss things that have no link or influence on their daily lives, do they shed their respective ‘roles’ and speak from where their real selves reside.

They in other words, become ‘friends’ in the process, make a real connection with each other and that is what precisely every human mind is known to be craving for.

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