I know it's cliche and everyone says so but that can't stop me from telling that my mom is an "Angel" and that i love her so much.
She's everything to me--the most beautiful,charming,confident, smart,loving,caring,independent and modern yet modest woman in the world. She is a Jack of all Trades[Apart from using the Computer which she finds boring and strenuous.lol],a working woman,being the first[& the BEST] French teacher in KK District,doing all the house chores and keeping the house a "home" and making it beautiful the way it is-a good cook and always piling so much food on the plate inspite of knowing my dad has to lose a few pounds :P-fluent in English and nearly 5 other languages-drives the scooty and the car,a good and devoted wife to her husband and the most caring and loving mom a mother can ever be,sacrificing her joy and happiness for the well-being of her children and putting their needs above hers and the rest.Yes,she's the ideal mom.
I never really realised she meant so much to me until the other day when an incident took place at my college.I have a classmate called,Chitra Poorni,with whom i am not very familiar with.She's very sweet,shy,quiet yet friendly,calm and very reserved and never fools around like the rest of us. She's hard-working and clears my doubts whenever i ask her.I often used to tell her,"Come on Chitra,don't be so serious and study so much.Enjoy,have fun and talk with us.We are in College!!" And she used to just smile.......
Yesterday,she dint turn up at college[being very regular,otherwise].Classes went on as usual.It was our Analog n Digital Communication period and mam having finished her portion for this semester was just having a small chit-chat with us.She's quite fond of Chitra and she asked after her.One of her close friends told her that she had fever and that was the reason she hadn't come to college.Then mam went on about Chitra,telling that she was a very good girl and asked her friend if she still cooks her lunch for college.Her friend replied in the affirmative.Mulling over what she had just said,i asked mam why.Mam looked at me surprised and said,"Don't you know? She lost her mother".I let out a gasp of surprise and was so stunned that i was left speechless.Later i found out that Chitra's mother was a heart patient and had suffered a heart attack when she was at a tender age of 15.I felt very sorry for her and was asking myself why i never came to know about it.This news came as a shock for most of us who have never mingled so much with her.
Turns out she lives with her elder brother and father and does all the house-hold chores and also cooks 3 meals a day on her own,packs her own lunch and comes to college ever since her mother passed away.I was really moved by the thought of how she does all this and also manages to study.Here, i cannot even manage to plait my hair without my mother's help and i would also feel annoyed or disinterested to help my mom in the kitchen to just chop the vegetables at times.
I can never imagine what it would be like to live and grow up without a mother..a mother to share our secrets,a mother to rest on her shoulders and cry upon,a mother to console,comfort and encourage us,a mother who cooks our favourite dish and clears our bedroom even if we ask her not to.
Chitra never gave us a chance or reason to suspect something bad had taken place in her life and that she was missing one of the most important person in her life.A wave of emotions and sympathy rushed through my entire body as i thought about the entire thing.Admiration,adoration and a new found sense of respect for Chitra filled my heart.....
She's everything to me--the most beautiful,charming,confident, smart,loving,caring,independent and modern yet modest woman in the world. She is a Jack of all Trades[Apart from using the Computer which she finds boring and strenuous.lol],a working woman,being the first[& the BEST] French teacher in KK District,doing all the house chores and keeping the house a "home" and making it beautiful the way it is-a good cook and always piling so much food on the plate inspite of knowing my dad has to lose a few pounds :P-fluent in English and nearly 5 other languages-drives the scooty and the car,a good and devoted wife to her husband and the most caring and loving mom a mother can ever be,sacrificing her joy and happiness for the well-being of her children and putting their needs above hers and the rest.Yes,she's the ideal mom.
I never really realised she meant so much to me until the other day when an incident took place at my college.I have a classmate called,Chitra Poorni,with whom i am not very familiar with.She's very sweet,shy,quiet yet friendly,calm and very reserved and never fools around like the rest of us. She's hard-working and clears my doubts whenever i ask her.I often used to tell her,"Come on Chitra,don't be so serious and study so much.Enjoy,have fun and talk with us.We are in College!!" And she used to just smile.......
Yesterday,she dint turn up at college[being very regular,otherwise].Classes went on as usual.It was our Analog n Digital Communication period and mam having finished her portion for this semester was just having a small chit-chat with us.She's quite fond of Chitra and she asked after her.One of her close friends told her that she had fever and that was the reason she hadn't come to college.Then mam went on about Chitra,telling that she was a very good girl and asked her friend if she still cooks her lunch for college.Her friend replied in the affirmative.Mulling over what she had just said,i asked mam why.Mam looked at me surprised and said,"Don't you know? She lost her mother".I let out a gasp of surprise and was so stunned that i was left speechless.Later i found out that Chitra's mother was a heart patient and had suffered a heart attack when she was at a tender age of 15.I felt very sorry for her and was asking myself why i never came to know about it.This news came as a shock for most of us who have never mingled so much with her.
Turns out she lives with her elder brother and father and does all the house-hold chores and also cooks 3 meals a day on her own,packs her own lunch and comes to college ever since her mother passed away.I was really moved by the thought of how she does all this and also manages to study.Here, i cannot even manage to plait my hair without my mother's help and i would also feel annoyed or disinterested to help my mom in the kitchen to just chop the vegetables at times.
I can never imagine what it would be like to live and grow up without a mother..a mother to share our secrets,a mother to rest on her shoulders and cry upon,a mother to console,comfort and encourage us,a mother who cooks our favourite dish and clears our bedroom even if we ask her not to.
Chitra never gave us a chance or reason to suspect something bad had taken place in her life and that she was missing one of the most important person in her life.A wave of emotions and sympathy rushed through my entire body as i thought about the entire thing.Admiration,adoration and a new found sense of respect for Chitra filled my heart.....
Wow! Achu! That was beautiful as was eloquent! Superbly written ma! I'm doubly glad that you started blogging! :D
ReplyDeleteBtw, you were doing this yesterday instead of helping amma in the kitchen? :P :P :P
Yes, your thoughts mirror mine(which is why I keep telling you to help out :P)
Kudos on the Computer part though.. And yet, ask her to type an email to Hari chithappa and she runs to it right?? ;)
Heheee :) Thanku anna!! Am glad too that i started blogging...all thanx to none but u!
ReplyDeleteWhen i mentioned about what u said about the compt part to Amma,she almost turned a deep shade of red! Lol! :) :)