Significance of Father’s Day Today

In every society since the beginning of civilization parents have always had a significant position. There are many types of relationships in a person’s life but a father-child relationship cannot find a substitute. He is a teacher, a philosopher and most reliable friend at different phases of a person’s life. he has been the greatest inspiration in a person’s life. He teaches us the philosophies of life and has showed the ways to tackle the various problems of life. He has always supported us and has helped to attain our goals in life. He has always been there to offer the shoulders of a friend where we can rest for a while.

There is every reason of celebrating such an incomparable relationship and the idea behind the celebration of Father’s Day has been designed for this purpose. It is true that in the modern society, people started celebrating Mother’s Day first. But the idea for the father’s day also started at that time only. It is a different thing that it took a lot of time for the world to understand the necessity of Father’s Day too. The announcement fort the official holiday of father’s day came in the year 1972. And gradually most of the countries acknowledged Father’s Day and started celebrating the male side of parenting.

The significance of Father’s Day is related directly to the position of a father in the family as well as in the society. It is very much true that father together with mother has been equally responsible in the well being of the family. Both of them take lots of pain and make lots of sacrifices to make us the individuals that we are today. In the primary stages, both father and mother remain responsible for taking some important decisions related to the education and growing up of the child.

We all have seen that the lifestyle of a father affects his child a lot. And if the child is a boy, he will surely try and adapt some important parts of his father’s life-style. If a father can set good examples of leading life in a healthy way, the child is bound to follow the same. It is a growing fact that today several schools, colleges, cultural societies in India and abroad organize many functions and cultural programs for the Fathers Day. The idea behind such events is to inspire children to pay due respect to their dad and take care of them.

Clarence Budington Kelland has rightly said - “He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” rnWe should use this celebration of father’s day wisely and thank him for being the best father of the world.