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.