Short Take: Quiet tribute
March 21, 2015, Gulf Today
A short break of two weeks. In a way tried my best to keep
silent from as many activities as possible. It was an effort to join a divine
bliss. In the process I learnt a lot of things including an increased
confidence to practise the art of not to react impulsively to circumstances and
realities.
The silence was indirectly to show my tribute to join the
sorrow of a friend whose mother passed away. I know the feelings and void
created when a person we love a lot in our life suddenly departs. I had
experienced it the recent times, when my mother in law and my grandmother
passed away. Many times, I was stuck with whom to ask certain things when I
needed guidance. Of course, life went on and will.
Motherhood is a special feeling beyond explanation. Back
from my leave, at work on a busy morning, I listened to a colleague of mine
busily phoning and ordering birthday cake for her son. It was a hectic day and
in between the busy tasks, she found time to order the cake specially decorated
with her son’s favorite football teams design. She was arranging other gifts
too to the little boy.
It brought tears in my eyes as I suddenly remembered, how my
mother who was a teacher during my childhood days, come back from her school
with a gift, either a shirt or a colouring set. Those days transportation was
not easy and she had to change three buses to get back home from the school. It
used to be late by the time she reach back home. But even then, she never
missed to show her affection and love for us.
A casual talk with my colleagues revealed the general trend
with children these days. They are pampered with costly gifts; mobiles, Ipads,
laptops and what not. So, it is a big challenge now for parents to offer them
with a gift which will remain impressive with the children at least for some
amount of time.
Challenges aplenty for the modern day mothers. But, their
affection and love will remain forever, however fast modernisation happens.
This is a fact proven many times in the world around.
Ramesh Menon
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