However you have already done your homework and know that your future son-in-law is capable of looking after your darling girl and will love her till the end of their days. On that score your mind rests easy.
So on the most important day of your daughter's life, you walk her down the aisle and hand her over to her groom who's waiting there anxiously. After the marriage is solemnised, you stand watching the happy couple walk away as man and wife, your emotions in tumult.
Have you ever watched the expression on the face of the father of the bride? Have you seen the feelings he thinks no one is aware of? Nostalgia, poignancy, a feeling of loss? My brother stood alone, looking lost and bereft as he watched his daughter, now a wife, walking out of the church on her husband's arm.
Fathers are much closer to their daughters and letting go is a hard feeling. All her life she's been there with you at home and now she will only come home on festival days or on special occasions. It's not quite the same, is it?
What about mothers? How do they feel, letting go of their daughters? I think I can generalise that mothers feel differently from fathers. So long as they are assured that their daughters are in good hands and they will have good loving husbands, they will be happy.
After all letting go is part of life's cycles. Young once, we are now the older generation and our young are coming into their own, starting their lives together and building their families. This cycle has been ever since time immemorial and it will continue ad infinitum. So now we can look forward to the next stage of our lives, grandparenthood! Here's to Life!
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