Remember Steve Martin in the movie Father of the Bride. A father whose daughter is getting married is more anxious than the daughter herself…it’s hilarious but at the same time very stirring and tender. We cannot understand a father’s feelings and thoughts, what he feels when the daughter whom he has watched growing up, loved and pampered all his life is about to leave him in sometime soon. For whom he was the hero of her life for all these years, now suddenly going to be someone’s wife, someone’s daughter-in-law and stay in their house and leave this house for good. My dad has started behaving like this. He sometimes showers his love on me and every now and then looks at me so intently. I sometimes go red in face and sometimes I feel anxious of letting him go through all this. I’m persistently making efforts to help him accept and acknowledge the fact that I’m engaged and it’s all happening with his consent. But I think it is futile to reason the Father of the Bride to be. Because it isn’t the logic or rational thought that he wants to know, it’s the sentiments that he understands.
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That's a very complex process. Fathers want to be 'Hero' for their daughters, and marriage is the time when they are coming to terms with the fact that now there will be some other who will get closer to my daughter. Someone who will have greater importance in her life than I ever had.
ReplyDeleteBesides, they feel that now my daughter is moving away. They need to understand that nobody can forget the ties that are 25 years. Besides we are educated, empowered girls. We know that it is important to give the same kind of respect, attention, and importance to both the families.
June 20, 2009 1:21 PM