A beautiful soul!!!!

Now here is a story about a woman, who is very shy and not so expressive, highly conservative and orthodox. Maybe the first time I write about a woman and I wish to make it more special. She completed her graduation and was married to another not so expressive and humble fellow and they moved to the capital city at the start of 90's.

Initial fears of city life and the boredom associated with that and people around, everything was so new and even intimidating. She even felt for a moment that she was losing her freedom to express what she felt within. A boy was born and that brought her back to normalcy. She started loving her life and lived every moment of her life for that boy. She was blindly affectionate to her child that even her husband was not catered at times.

There was a time where she never sits when her husband was around and on the contrary her husband was a sceptic and rationalist who hated few meaning less custom. He practically believed all individuals irrespective of their sex deserve equal respect. Now that the boy grew gradually, the mom turned herself more dearer to him. Sacrificing a professional career to care for the child and always worrying about the welfare of her child, she was truly mad and blind in love. She even sacrificed materialistic world pleasures like televisions and she gave up watching movies and always was keen on saving for her kid's toys and needs.

The boy, with the freedom given at home had his option of choosing his career. There came a break when the guy moved to a hostel for a professional course. Mom cried because of this and she never wanted to spoil the mood of the guy when he left and she controlled herself and cried for many days secretly. Every time the guy calls from the hostel, she inquires about the food and money needs first,while the dad scolds for something or the other. She started saving in household to secretly deposit in her child's account.

The guy took so many years to realize how special his mom was. There was a family function at her brother's house and people had gathered and typical family comments by relatives mocking the attitude and behavior of the guy. The lady gets red and she even dares to fight and question her people, her brothers owing to the blind belief and love towards her son. She boycotts the function and walks out. This made the guy to realize how special his mom was.

Once he returned back from the hostel, she completely took care of him. The moment the boy wakes up in the morning, she is ready with the tooth brush with paste and once he is done, she is ready with a glass of water and coffee. She reads the cookery recipes to serve his child with delicious food. She even gets scoldings from her husband for being over affectionate like this. She even never allows his child to polish his shoes or wash his clothes. She once traveled all the way from home to his hostel just to wash clothes for the guy.

That evening, she and her son were sitting in the college canteen and she refused to have anything and the guy just finished his sandwich. A worker came to their table and she cleaned the left overs in the table. The mom was silent for along time as she was observing her son and when the worker left, she said, “had I been working like this at least daily I will get to see you!”. The guy was stunned and even screamed at her for making such a comment. He figured out the most affectionate bonding in this world for him.

He started realizing her sacrifices and he promised to him that for this soul in this world I can do anything to see her smile. She prayed always for him. Later on, she was literally burdened with lots of family duties from her mother like to take care of her sister from her village and to grow up her sister's son and to cater the needs of older people in her husband's side. She runs all the time and despite this she never fails to attend her child's needs. Whenever she goes out for some work, she ensures that every little need of her son is taken care of. To be frank, whenever she is given an ice cream in a marriage reception she carefully packs it home amidst all criticism from her husband. Not that she doesn't like ice creams, but she knows her kid likes it much.

Mockeries about the mom feeding the guy even in his teen and she washing entire lot of clothes of the family without employing a maid or washing machine,made the son guilty. His attempts to stop her from working all day and night ended up in vain. People even complained that her son would turn lazy and lethargic and never become independent. Even then, She defended her son. The son aspires to grow responsible realizing her sacrifices.

I forgot to mention the name of that lady. Her name is Mrs.Dharmambal Srinivasan. Luckily, I observed this lady very closely and maybe the closest, from her son’s eyes. Thanking God every moment for such a bonding itself seemed an irony as we fail to realize or realize late the GOD around us. How true the proverb is.. “God cannot be everywhere and so he makes mothers”. Just felt like writing about this special person in my life to make the readers discover or rediscover their special ones.

Love you Amma!!!!!