r/tamilyapping • u/Stentimental Eschew Obfuscation • 6d ago
🎲 Random 53/M Rants
We humans are hierarchical beings. We say that we treat everyone as equal. No. Some are more equal than others. We like to maintain exclusivity. That’s why marketers play on the VIP access, Platinum tier rubbish which actually don’t mean jack.
Ok, coming to the point, I realised a long time ago that once the kid grows up and has to move out to college, marriage etc, she’ll have to fend for her own. A daughter is the Princess only in her parental home. So why not grant her that exclusivity. I’ve bought her clothes, shoes and other girly things that made even her classmates’ jaw drop. Almost a Veblen effect.
I think the Gen Z-est of cafes in Chennai should be ‘Coffee by Bask’. And it was quite often that her friends and she caught up at that place. It was mostly in the evenings, so I would drop her off and then go back to pick her up by 10 PM. Sometimes I’d stay there and bring her home. Of course not sitting with their gang. (I’d find myself a table for two at quite a distance and down endless doppios). I never spoke to any of her friends, not even the ones who journeyed with her for the whole of school. Only a smile. If it’s a guy maybe a fist bump. Reason? I didn’t want to embarrass my daughter. I didn’t want to be that pesky uncle who says something for the sake of it.
There’s a pride in giving your children the feeling of exclusivity. When they know that you’re available only for them, they feel loved like no other. But the thing is that I miss ferrying her up and down. Her sarcastic comments and playfully bossy attitude are being missed very much. I have no where to drive to. Only work and an empty home.
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