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Ralph Montague posted a condolence
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
“A 32 Year Apprenticeship with a Master”
Time… what a mysterious concept. We are all born with the right to live approximately the same amount of days… about 27,000 to 30,000 days -give or take a few hundreds, out of which about 20,000 days make up our adult life… What we do with those days is up to us.
Bharatkumar Parekh or “Peter Park” as we so lovingly called him, took his 20,000 adult-days and became a man “Greater Than Life.”
I am honored to have known him for 32 years. In that time, I always saw him as a teacher, an older brother, worthy of every ounce of respect, but so many times, I saw him as a father figure.
Peter was an ambassador of life. He spread a unique, contagious feeling of joy and hope to all the people in my life who ever came in contact with him.
How does one pay tribute to a man that was bigger than life??
We don’t… instead we follow his example and model his life.
Peter’s love for his son and daughter Amy was always an inspiration to me. My first lessons of being a loving father I learned from him. I never saw a grown man cry in my presence when he would speak of his children, but I saw Peter cry in many occasions when he would share significant moments of his life with his children. I remember when Amy graduated from college, he couldn’t contain his joy and pride. I said “Peter, come down, you are going to have a heart attack!” While standing on the street, he looked up to the sky and his face became flooded with tears of joy. It took him a while to regain his composure.
I look back now, and realize that I was blessed to have a man like him trust me with so many intimate and private feelings and details about his personal life. But his trust in me and his love as a friend was much larger than that. The last time he sheds tears of joy in my office, was when he came into my office and very proudly shared that his son had decided to go back to college. Only God and Him know how much he loved his son, his daughter and his wife.
My brother Joseph and I use to call Peter “The Master in Disguise.” As a public speaker, and international consultant, I polished my professional and interpersonal skills by following and modeling the example of my great Master Bharatkumar Parekh.
I learned from him to communicate my experiences, not what I thought. I learned that I am fully responsible for the experiences I caused in other people, and on and on. I could fill an entire notebook with his teachings.
My wife adored him and my kids loved him as a father figure. His contribution to my personal life, my businesses as well as his contribution (many unrewarded) to dozens and dozens of other businesses to which I introduced him to over the years can never be quantified and will never be fully appreciated mostly because he never sought recognition or egotistical rewards.
His devotion, his honesty, his integrity and specially his willingness to always help ANYONE, ANYWHERE, and go beyond the call of duty can never be measured.
I have cried many times, silently, in the loneliness of my room this past few days. His sudden death hit me really hard, not because I would miss him, or will never see him again… but from a TERRIFYING FEAR.
Yes! My heart tremendously aches at the terrifying fear of not living my life up to the potential he always saw in me.
In many occasions he would come and bring me one lotto ticket as a gift. Then he would say, “If we win, you will give me ten (10) percent, so I can retire and help others; the other ninety (90) percent I want you to keep… for I know that with that kind of resources you could change the world.”
He always saw me as an apprentice in training… as a man being trained to change the world; and as an apprentice -and unbeknown to me, he modeled everything I needed to embark on that journey.
Last night, as I saw him one last time; emotionally, I packed the bags in my heart to go on my own journey as my great friend and master departed on his.
The pain his death has brought upon the immense community who knew him is too great to bear; not I nor anyone of us who knew him would be capable of mustering words soothing enough to alleviate this pain.
I saw his son, his wife and his daughter stand next to his casket. They stood in pain, but composed; sorrowful, but proud; alone-in-unity, but strong-in-hope, for they are the primary witness to the minutia that made Bharatkumar Parekh a man greater than life.
With the greatest love, respect and devotion I can muster, I share the sorrow and the loss with his family and friends as I bid farewell to my great friend and Master Bharatkumar Parekh.
You will always be in my heart "Peter Park" love always...
Ralph Montague
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jim romano posted a condolence
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
I only knew "Peter" for a short time. But I quickly realized that he was a special friend. He always went out of his way to help others, expecting nothing in return. He will be missed. Praying for him and his family.
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Bela & Nitin Thakkar lit a candle
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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We miss you Bharatbhai - keep watching on Vijuben, Alok and Ami and all of us from your heavanly abode.
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MEHUL MODI lit a candle
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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MEHUL MODI posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
I pray to God that HIS soul rests in peace. He was the best person I have ever known in my life, very humble and caring.
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