Generally, A father's dream is his Daughter's happiness & a well-settled marriage.
From the day she is born, parents start preparing for their girl's marriage. Don't get me wrong. It is not like they don't love her. They just don't love her in the same way she wants them to love her. They forget a really crucial aspect of her life: Education. Nobody absolutely nobody tells her that You have to become someone you will always respect, no matter what.
Being a housewife is an amazing choice of career if & only if a daughter wants to be one. But if she doesn't want to get married or have kids and she just wants to complete her education; it is absolutely okay.
When a girl is in her mid–twenties, her parents openly start discussing her marriage like it is the only issue that actually matters. Since the very consent is out of the window, her dreams are crumpled & dumped somewhere so that nobody can sense them.
Unfortunately, In India, Education is a right but not a law. It is considered important but not absolutely necessary. Just to put it out there, there is no alternative to education.
Why can't a father dream about his daughter's success party with such sheer determination? What if the girl wants to be an engineer rather than being just a wife?
Let her decide. Not because it's her life, it is but because she is supposed to live with that decision.
I wish parents would have gone out on an extra limb for their girl's dreams rather than spending every last cent on their daughter's wedding. That very sum of money could have resulted in her college tuition fees but no, it was spent on their daughter's namesake happiness.
In an alternate universe, A father's dream is his little girl's thriving success.
Let a girl dream, let a girl educate, let a girl breathe.
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