found this hilarious and simply lovely piece on my sister's blog,
couldn't resist posting it,
it written by the famous hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Loosely translated for the non-hindi types:

Scared of the trials and turmoils of life,

my sons ask me

"why did you give birth to us?"

and i have nothing else 

but to tell them

that my father gave birth to me 

            without taking permission from me,

and without asking my father, his father gave birth to him,

and his father gave birth to him without asking him...

the trials of life, 

           existed in the past, 

           and continue today, perhaps a little more,

           the future will still carry them, maybe even more than now

you take a new stand,

ask permission from your sons, before giving birth to them!