I was on my way back to hostel, after a visit to my doctor as I was suffering from cold... I tell you cold is the worst disease to have... Its pathetic.. :P
On my way back I saw a lady with a man(who seemed to be her husband) and 2 kids. She was moving towards her car. Oh man... what a car it was.. awesomely awesome... :)
But I am not gonna write about the car here... What drew my attention were the words she was whispering in her hubby’s ears though her pitch didn’t allow it to remain a whisper... Her words were “Let’s get out of here as soon as possible. I am sick of this place. I donno how my mum lives here... Even my mum sucks... She is so poor... There is no standard...” And just then an old woman from inside of a home on my right came running with something in her hand. She summoned that lady and fed her with whatever she was carrying with her. The woman informed “It is sweet curd and it will keep you safe through the journey and your journey will be successful”. The old woman was her mother. After feeding her daughter, the old woman fed his son-in-law and the kids...
I looked at the faces of both the women standing there.
On one hand the old woman seemed to be very happy as she saw her daughter had a very happy family, well settled husband and her quality of clothes were so good. She had never imagined that she would be able to give her daughter such a kind of lifestyle, her own car, and any other thing to ease her life, though she had wished her daughter to have all those pleasures. But one can’t get anything just by making a wish. And now she saw all her wishes have come true. Every parent dreams of giving their children everything in this world that one can possibly think of. But trust me, if a parent can’t afford to fulfill the wishes of their children, it upsets them. So was the case with this old lady. She had always been so anxious, but now when she saw the lavish lifestyle, she was simply overwhelmed. She was so delirious that she almost seemed to burst into tears. But she thought if she cried it might make her daughter sad, so she just smiled, though her smile denied to be a simple smile and became a grin.
While on the other hand the daughter of this old woman seemed to be irritated and wished to run away from the very place as soon as possible. She was least bothered about her mother’s feelings. No matter how hard her mother tried, her daughter never seemed to be pleased with her efforts, and thought her mother is behaving very cheap and low class....
Now I want you to ask yourself a few questions...
Is this for what a mother nourishes her child with her love and affections that one day when they grow-up, they will treat her like dirt...??? Is this the future she had wished for herself???
Probably not... Or she never had time to think of her own future because she was too busy planning one for her child. The child whom she cared more than anyone and everyone in this whole world. But today for that child her mother is the last person to care about...
Isn’t the above incident just a glimpse of what is happening around us and within us??? Isn’t we that grown-up child and our parents that old lady...??? It was not only the story of that woman and her daughter but it is one of the many similar stories, yet untold. We say that we are grown up, but are we really??? Do we really behave like grown-ups??? Have we learnt the art of not being selfish??? Do we know how to care and spread love??? These are some lessons yet to be learnt, and our only teachers and inspirations are our own parents... So better take care of them...
Have a nice day.
