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# my late grandfather would have turned 100 today
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/my-late-grandfather-would-have-turned-100-today/
- Published: 2023-01-31T02:01:34.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-31T02:02:29.000Z
- Author: Anitha Krishnan

My mother's father, who died three years ago, would have turned 100 years old on this day.

I have only a few memories of him, especially from the time of summer vacations in childhood. I grew up in a suburb of Mumbai, and every summer we used to take the train on a 24-hour-journey to Chennai, where we'd spend a month with my maternal uncle and his family and my grandparents.

What I remember the most is that he had an unwavering faith in God and an absolute acceptance of fate that I've come to admire the older I've gotten. 

The more I see how little of life is truly in my control, the more I've come to admire my late grandfather's accepting, trusting nature.

Remembering him fondly on this day ...

![](https://thedreampedlar.com/content/images/2023/01/5.1.-50-years-ago.jpeg)

![](https://thedreampedlar.com/content/images/2023/01/5.2.-Latest.jpeg)

L: grandfather at the age of 50; R: in his 90s