Wednesday, January 16, 2019

A mother's letter.

My dear  girl,
                         You birthday has just passed. Your 16th birthday. How time flies. It seems just like yesterday. On a cold afternoon of January I was admitted to the hospital and you arrived three weeks before the scheduled time. The tiny you. So small and thin that I could hold you in my palm. You hardly had any voice and I remember one day ,among my seven days hospital stay,I became so anxious just because you wouldn't cry ,I could not feed you, and then when the doctor hit you hard on your toes to wake you up I was a bit upset with him. That's how mothers are. And on those days ,as I stared at your tiny frame I knew I will have to live, live long just for you. Not even for your brother ,but for you, anyhow, somehow ,because I always feel a girl needs a mother more than a boy needs her. And now I realise a daughter completes a mother, a family ,as a sister her brother.
                You have changed a lot in the recent years. If something has not changed its your fragile health, your thin structure. You loved to play ,was not that naughty or talkative but loved friends. And you had many of them, from your age to younger ones,you always mixed easily. Can I call it a teenager problem or blame the place we are staying now ,you are becoming an introvert, you love spending time to yourself with your mobile and your family around you.
                      Earlier you always wanted a party on your birthday,and we had one until we were transferred to this place. You loved to go to school in your best fancy cloth, loved a little show off, distributed toffees among friends ,but this time you preferred your school uniform ,no toffees , not even to our neighbours but satisfied with wishes from your friends and a very private family dinner.
                        I wish you to grow up into a fine ,strong and independent lady. I wish you to be successful in life. I wish you to be everything that I wanted and could not attain. I wish you to be brave enough to fight back every odds of life ,to face every challenges of life bravely. I wish you to be a kind person ,a true human being, having all the values of life. These are my little prayers.
                

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