How will you feel if your only son goes to Abroad?

September 21, 2013

How will you feel if your only son goes to Abroad?

Greetings from Hitesh! Hope you enjoyed the last week.  Hope you are enjoying our twitter updates also.  Last week my neighbour’s son got Visa for USA. He is going there for further study. This incidence made me think on the above captioned matter.

How Parents Were Reacting?

They were on cloud nine. They felt very proud as their son is going there for further study.  They also feel lucky that their son got the VISA in the first attempt. They are busy shopping for his son.

The End Result:-

The Son will probably marry with a girl over there and settle there. The parents will visit once or twice their but in the end they will (mostly) be staying in India alone. The son, if well cultured, will keep in touch through Phone, Email and may also send money regularly. But at the time of last breadth of his parents…..99% probability is there, he will not be present with them. In short, at the time of death……the parents will be alone!!

Let us take other example…..where son is separating from parents after marriage as his wife and his mother are not getting along well with each other. The parents will be unhappy. They will curse their luck, the Daughter in Law and the Son for being a Handpacked Husband.

The end results here is also similar to the one who is gone abroad…….the son may keep in touch….but he may not be there when the parents need him the most !!

Which one you like?

Though the end result is the same, most parents will like the first situation. This is the results of perception and nothing else.

How does this affect your performance as an Investor/Trader?

It is said in English….All Is Well That Ends Well. In the above example…as a parent your end is the same.  But if you like first over the second, you are easily susceptible to emotional imbalance and that will lead to wrong decisions.

I see small investors are coming back to market post 3500 points rally in the Sensex. Their logic…if market is moving up, there must be something good!!

Let us see the reality……in reality there is no fundamental change in last 20 days. No change in bank NPAs. Inflation is still moving up. CAD is still widening. GDP forecast is still at 4.5%. Corporate Profitability is still going to be suppressed.

It’s all about your perception.

My Personal Call:-

In Enter The Dragon, Bruce Lee had said…. “Don’t think, feel !!It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory.”

We have been feeling the market and telling you to invest, invest and invest. It will be very unfortunate for you, if you have missed the bus.

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Have a Happy Weekend.

Hitesh Parikh.