This is not a dedication or I am not writing this because of any occasion like mother's day. Some recent events that have happened in my life made me think about certain things. I liked a girl (don't mistake it to a marriage proposal or some other kind of proposal just liked a girl like any other guy!), which was a bad choice (of course my friends always make fun of my choice of girls). I was thinking about the reasons why I liked this girl in particular. It made me find out how much influence my mother has on me. Right from the way this girl climbs the stairs (in a jig jag manner so that it will be easier) to the utter dedication to anything she does there were many similarities between her and my mother. Like a foundation of a house my mother is the most important member of my house. I can't imagine how my father would have managed to control us without her help even for few days. I haven't seen her waking up after me once in my life, not that girls should be like this but I don't know how she manages to wake up so early consistently. She herself a voracious reader used to tell us the importance of education through various examples when we were children, though we never cared about it. She imparted a sense of discipline in us. We used to hate the regular watering of plants before going to play but now I realize how different I am from others because of such disciplined childhood. I never cared about studies when I was a kid. Only naughty and not so docile kids were asked to come to class on Saturdays. When I was in 2nd class, I remember the Saturday when I was asked to come and complete all the pending class notes. My mother too came with me and completed all the class notes for me! I vividly remember the picture of her, through the classroom window, writing my notes while I was playing outside with other kids. I don't remember her comparing my grades with other kids. She never worried about others at all. The first thing I notice about people is they are very much excited about others. How is your son doing? How much does he earn? How is his college? People keep firing all such questions at others. Why do you even care about such things? I have never seen my mother asking about others' kids like that. I have immense respect to that quality of hers. Why do you even want to compare one individual with another? Just don't discriminate any person based on education or on the salary he earns. Good grades and a good job don't make one any better person!. All her life she had been very disciplined, her daily routine used to be like this: waking up early in the morning, cleaning the house dirtied by us the before day, start cooking for all of us while simultaneously listening to radio. At around 7:00 am she would wake me up (mostly my father but occasionally my mother) to make me listen to a program on some famous characters like Da Vinci, Galileo etc. At around 7:30 am she would start making breakfast for us and then we would to be ready by 8:00 am waiting for our lunch boxes which mostly were ready on time. It was like that till I went to a hostel in 10th grade. During nights, she was generally engrossed in her office work. She has never pampered me too much like other moms but I realized the love she has for me when she reached my hostel, far away from my house, just to confirm that I was safe. Probably, she had a bad dream. For the first time, I have seen a woman crying for me on that day. I don't think I will get those moments from any other woman. She has sacrificed so much for us. Though she used to read a lot, because of us, she gave up that reading habit, but she reads often whenever she gets time and gives some intelligent advices to my dad. Now a days as we both siblings live away from our home she has a lot of time in her hands and I don't think she is enjoying it much. She got used to the busy life for almost 15 years and suddenly changing it is difficult. Hope she will find her long lost reading habit which was her friend for many years.
