A 49-year-old man, who has witnessed his parents fighting since childhood, feels guilty after hitting his 75-year-old father to stop him from beating his mother. Acharya Prashant advises that the solution to a past event is not to question whether it should have happened, as the past has already shaped the present. The person questioning the past is a product of that very past; if the past were different, the person and the question would also be different. You cannot change what has already occurred. Acharya Prashant explains that the core issue lies in unhealthy, unfree relationships governed by pre-defined blueprints. People are not individuals but are playing roles like 'father', 'son', 'husband', or 'wife'. He states that a person can know another person, but a character cannot know another character. He uses the example of actors knowing each other personally, but their on-screen characters cannot, as they are bound by the script. Similarly, people are molded by societal roles, preventing their consciousness from developing freely. We don't truly see our loved ones; we see them through the lens of their roles. We might observe strangers more closely than our own family members. Because we don't truly see them, we cannot know them. He points out that in India, it's almost impossible for a grown-up son to have a heart-to-heart conversation with his father because of the rigid roles they play. The father-son relationship is often fraught with tension. He refers to the story of Lord Ganesh and Lord Shiva, where Ganesh fought with his father for his mother's sake, highlighting this as a recurring theme in our stories. This role-playing and emotional suppression have severe consequences. Men are conditioned not to need affection or touch, which contributes to them having shorter lifespans than women. After a wife's death, an average husband dies within one to three years, whereas an average wife lives five to eight years longer after her husband's death. This is because the husband, unable to connect emotionally while she was alive, is deeply affected by her loss. Acharya Prashant advises the questioner to treat his father as a friend. He suggests that just as he broke the "code of conduct" by raising his hand, he should break it again by hugging his father. He tells him to see them not as 'father' and 'son' but as two old men who can be friends. He encourages him to go and hug his father, and perhaps his mother too, without hesitation, just like the "Jaadu ki Jhappi" (magical hug) from the movie "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S."