Welcoming my son on vacation
One of the unpleasant experiences of a post-retirement couple is when the children are away on studies or work. In our case, both our children have been away for quite some time. Our daughter pursuing her PhD is away in the US for the last five years. Our son, after completing his Masters in the Netherlands, too has been away for 42 months. We did not have the pleasure of meeting them for all these years because their work schedules were tight. The spread of the present pandemic was also unexpected. The social and cultural fabric of our lives has been changing rapidly during the last few decades. The children have started thinking globally on all issues concerning their lives. And many of us in the twilight zone are left stranded with our baggage of many a contradiction. The internet has been benign that we could see and talk to them for hours. However, the vagaries of the time zones and the availability of the dear ones suiting our times are the common difficulties we face. Here c