This year, my dad turned 60, marking the end of an extraordinary 37-year journey as a Professor of Electronics. A man who built his life around shaping young minds. Through his actions, his discipline, and his unwavering love for learning, he gave me the greatest lessons of all: knowledge is power, perseverance is everything, and a life spent in the service of others is a life well-lived.
As his retirement approached, I kept asking myself—what do you give a man who has spent his entire life giving to others? What do you gift someone who finds joy not in things, but in learning, in ideas, in the quiet satisfaction of a well-lived life?
Material gifts lose their shine. But love, time, and purpose? They last forever.
A year ago, I made a decision—one that scared me, one that pushed me beyond anything I’d ever done before. I decided to write a book. Not just any book, but one that would honor everything he taught me. And I decided to keep it a secret until the day he retired.
Writing was never in my plans. But his love for books, his love for learning, and my deep desire to make him proud gave me the strength to do it.
For an entire year, I worked in silence. I wrote through late nights, through self-doubt, through moments where I wondered if I could even pull it off. And then, on the day of his retirement ceremony, I handed him the book.
The look on his face—the way his eyes filled with pride, the way his hands trembled as he held it, the way joy and emotion overwhelmed him in that moment—made every single struggle worth it. I will never forget that moment. Ever.
That day, I understood something deep in my heart: No amount of money can ever buy the happiness of making the people you love truly proud. There is no greater joy than giving back to those who shaped you, than showing them—through actions, not just words—that everything they poured into you was worth it.
Happy retirement, Papa. I can’t wait for you to begin this new chapter of your life with the first thing you chose to do—reading Product huMan.
And to everyone reading this: If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this—make time for the people who made you who you are. Success isn’t just about what we accomplish. It’s about the hearts we touch along the way.
More about the book in my next post. Product huMan is now available in 100+ platforms globally—order your copy here: https://shorturl.at/1DJPq
