What would you leave behind for your child if you weren't sure how much time you had?

Every parent would love to grow old and grey and be there for their children to share all the love, kindness, arguments, and unwanted advice.
But sometimes life asks a different question.

Faced with a complex spinal condition and a high-risk surgery, one father found himself confronting a possibility he had never wanted to imagine: What if I don't get to be there for my son for all the years I had hoped for?

So he began to write.

What started as WhatsApp messages became a collection of thoughts, stories, jokes, reflections, and conversations—written from hospital rooms, difficult days, moments of fear, and moments of unexpected laughter.

There are serious reflections, silly jokes, Hinglish banter, and the wisdom the author found in the Bhagavad Gita and, especially, the Dnyaneshwari—books that have accompanied him through much of his life.

It is a book about living when life suddenly feels uncertain.

About finding courage when you are afraid.
About accepting what you cannot control.
About laughing when you probably shouldn't.
About love that wants to outlive the person who carries it.

Above all, it is a father talking to his son.