No, she is not my role model. There are so many things I would have wanted her to do differently
Be bolder, stand up for what she wanted and deserved, not be a push over..are some of the thing
I believe in breaking things rather than preserving thier ashes
If something does not work out, get rid of it..anything if not wanted in its totality is a clutter..and life should be free of clutter
But she keeps asking me to preserve, to hold on to things till they fall out of my hands without my mistake
And I either get irritated or laugh at her stale values
No, she was not a dancer. I dont know whose genes I inherited for the danseuse in me.
My purest feelings, my overwhelming love and my maddening anger, I feel only for her
Happy mother's day Ma!
Be bolder, stand up for what she wanted and deserved, not be a push over..are some of the thing
I believe in breaking things rather than preserving thier ashes
If something does not work out, get rid of it..anything if not wanted in its totality is a clutter..and life should be free of clutter
But she keeps asking me to preserve, to hold on to things till they fall out of my hands without my mistake
And I either get irritated or laugh at her stale values
Yet, when I speak a harsh word with anyone, when I shout at auto-rickshaw guy, I have this nagging feeling of going an notch below in my image in her eyes
Cos I was always this soft girl, who could not fight the world(Now all I do si fight)
No, she was not a dancer. I dont know whose genes I inherited for the danseuse in me.
"हट बे निखाटू गंवारवा मैं तेरे संग ना जाउंगी " - My mother would
teach us this dance in her clumsy, faltering, endearing way
Yet to me, till date, thats my sweetest memory of anything close to sweetness
No, she might not be so good in English, or have had as good an education as we had, or maybe we were a tad better student than her
Yet, my oldest memory of education is about her asking me to write 100 times in a book, something I could not remember easily
My purest feelings, my overwhelming love and my maddening anger, I feel only for her
Happy mother's day Ma!
माँ और माँ की जाई
3 comments:
Reminded me of my mother; though semi-literate, but had it not been for her, I would not have been educated and become what I am today in an environment where education was not taken very seriously. May her soul rest in peace. Amen.
The relationship with one's mother is an umbilical relationship; nothing else can take its place.
Happy Mother's Day.
Syed - Thanks. My mother is educated, and was a teacher. Yet, the next generation always makes the older one feel outdated
so true.. overwhelming anger and purest love.. same here!
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