BEING MOTHER

                                     

‘Mom’, these three words, few years back had all my needs and demands centered on them. All my day to day activities, most minute needs saw their fulfillment in that one word. From my laundry to my shoes; my regular meals to my nutritional requirements; my mannerism to my indulgences; she has been my guide and guard.

But these things remained as part of basic life and never got my special attention as today. She being my mom, it’s her duty; this orthodox rule had a firm place in my mind. But last one year had made me realize that it’s much much more being a mother. The duties that seem obvious to us as kids, makes her life. She lives those moments sometimes as joy, at other as anxiety or care. She has all her emotions bundled around her kids.

The moment I heard my doctors talk among them that the heart rate of the baby had started dipping due to excessive fluid loss, my body that was tired to death due to two days labor pain, has energy all of a sudden to shout at them to do something rather than just discuss. The well being and pain of the unborn overtook my own pains.

And the time he came in our lives, his moments started driving my emotions, his smile making me smile and his cry making me anxious and cry. In morning when I leave for work and till I get back home his innocent and mischievous eyes and two front teethed smiles crosses my mind countless time. Every minute delay from usual schedule in reaching home makes me anxious as if I am committing a crime. No assignment given by supervisor seems urgent enough to stop me from leaving for home on time. The performance appraisals, salary hikes have somehow taken the back seat. Each minute I get to spend watching his new learning, new mischief and tantrums, new adventures; I feel blessed and thank almighty for that.

I just wish to give him the best of myself not allowing anything to come in between neither my materialistic desires nor my physical constraints. This wish of mine somehow drives me closer to my mom thinking of her same desire and her success in achieving it.

From 25 Sep ’2010 5:17 A.M., the mother in me drives my life. It’s the duties of a mother that rule keeping aside the whims and fancies and desires and aspirations of me as individual. And it’s not by any binding but comes naturally to me and I think to all of us.

Motherhood is really a very angelic gift of GOD to women and we shall all thank him for that and enjoy it to fullest.

Friendship

While driving to office the lyrics of the song ‘Puraani Jeans’ drove my thoughts to the school classrooms and college corridors with friends around me, laughing, teasing and enjoying life purely and perfectly.

The moments shared, experiences felt, stories narrated, dreams discussed and feelings felt, all emotions somehow accumulated in one moment of life. The word ‘FRIEND’ to one and all reminds of joy, affection, sharing, caring, complaints, fights, screams and many more. May be my knowledge of adjectives fell short to describe this feeling completely.

Friendship is centric element of human life. We may have various relations in our life but somehow somewhere each of these relations accumulates to friendship. When a boy/girl crosses the adolescent age parents always assure them with the sense that they are now friends more than parents and hence the child can confide in with all his worries, doubts, queries etc. Teacher who is friendlier rather than bossy is liked more by students.

Friendship does not have any set defined rules of lineage or age as other relations have. Friends can be of any age, any background (financial, educational, religious etc). It’s just that the desire to share moments (good or bad) of life together that makes friendship to grow between individuals.

The biggest charm of friendship is that it is free from all formalities. The frankness to share it provides is the biggest gem. Friend is a person you open your heart with no hesitation, no presumptions, no fear. The love and care is felt from the deepest depth of heart and the complaints are just said and forgotten.

Friendship in a global way is solution given by HIM to human being for all their problems. The type of society that we are growing into today with crime, terrorism, hatred increasing at a disturbing rate, the solace that friendship can provide can definitely prove to be a savior.

Lets use this beautiful gift of GOD to heal, help, grow, learn and live a life to its BEST.

If human life is a garden and all the relations are flowers of this garden, friendship surely is the smell in all these relations (both personal and professional). On this friendship day I just wish this beautiful aroma spreads across more hearts and bless us all.

THIRSTY THOUGHTS

“Wow Soda,limca sab ek side par pyaas to paani se hi bhujti hai “, I confide to myself while galloping that glass of cold water. The satisfaction and fulfillment derived is beyond the reach of my vocabulary. But suddenly my state of satisfaction is intervened by the thoughts of dripping taps, water flowing into the drains uselessly just because someone did not have enough time or sincerity to turn off the tap after using it. And the places I have in my mind are not the bus stands, railway stations or the street taps. But what I remembered was the shameless wastage of water that I have seen many a times in the girl’s hostel of eminent engineering college or the ladies washroom of a high profile software company. Well I am sorry if it sounds offensive to the ladies reading it because I cannot comment about the boy’s section as I did not have an opportunity to visit their premises.

But the main thing is that we all contribute to wastage of natural resources in spite of differences in our education level, our upbringings etc. I really feel as if someone is slowly killing the life with each drop of that water flowing uselessly into the drains. It gives me a feeling that we all have somehow turned into a murderer. How much time or effort does it take to turn off the tap (completely) once your task is over? And the returns it fetches are beyond comparison.

Have we become so busy in our other important tasks that this moral duty of ours has become negligible? If that is the case then beware my dear friends because one day this ignored task will pay back in a mammoth way. I don’t know if we will be alive to see that or not but those present then would never forgive you. Who have given us power to waste the share of others from this natural resource?

We feel very proud for ourselves thinking that we have progressed. But if our education, our upbringing, our spiritual thinking cannot make us responsible enough to thank and respect the precious nature we have. Then I think we are wasting our time effort to gain such education or so called spiritual wisdom. We are lagging in our education, in our upbringing, in our morals everything, everywhere.

Wake up friends, it is just a matter of feeling your responsibility from the heart and gets connected with the natural life around other than the shiny material life we are engaged in.

It is well known that “Better Late than never”. But if it’s too late it is as good (or may be as bad) as never. It is really tough to stay thirsty. If you do not believe please try and experiment it to believe it.