My Mom Coolest!!

Dhoop mein chaya jaise

Pyaas mein nadiyan jaise

Tan mein jeevan jaise

Mann mein Darpan jaise

Haath duaoon wale

Roshan kare ujale

Phool pe jaise shabnam

Saans mein jaise sargam

Prem ki moorat, daya ki surat

Aisi aur kahan hai

Jaise meri maa hai...

Typing these lines, tears have already welled up in my eyes. I miss my momma darling. Partly I should blame my friend Megha for my emotional state coz she turned me into an emotional being from a practical bitch. Thanks anyways!

I heard that God decided that he couldn’t be at all places and so he had created these beautiful beings called mother. Mother, amma, wow what a beautiful word. And what a beautiful person you are dear mom. I remember how I was laughed at when I told my cousins that I wanted to go to a disco with my mom. I wondered, what’s there to laugh at? Of course mom will have lots have fun out there. Coz my mom is different. She’s not one of those scolding-for-coming-late-at-night types. Undoubtedly the bravest woman I was ever fortunate to meet. I remember how my dad used to get all sweaty and tensed and panicky whenever I was “late” in the evening. (Late according to him meant past 7.00 pm) but my mom’s response would be “Relax, its just 7.00 pm, she’s in the city and it’ll definitely take an hour for her to take a bus and come home”. But before she would finish her sentence my dad would call me and say, “Don’t be so late beta. Come fast”. And my mom would sigh and shrug!

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It so happens that me and my mom always want to watch telugu movies together coz, well, my friends don’t really enjoy telugu movies and my dear old dad is hardly a movie buff if you don’t count the t-shirt he always dons which says ‘I Love Movies On TV’. So its always a mother-daughter private affair. So we went to a movie which was about a happy go lucky teenage guy with an equally easygoing parents and a beautiful teenage girl of strict parents who fall in love in the college, get caught by parents, the usual rona-dhona and finally wanting to elope and hero’s father dies and hero realizes his goal is to give good life to the parents and somehow by stroke of luck meets the heroine at the end and they live happily ever after. Hmm, time for the usual 'preaching'. No, I'm not complaining. I love discussing (read arguing) with my mom. She said, “Look how these children have become. They don’t care about their parents who looked after them for 20 years or so, giving them everything they asked for." "But mom", I quipped, "That heroine wasnt exactly given anything she wanted. I mean, she wanted the hero but the parents refused isn't it? So may be she thought that eloping is the best way to rebel against her parents. But still, she was wrong mom. I know she was." I added looking at the change of expression in my mom's face and she would smile at me. "See, what a good girl I am, Mom." And she asked, "So, planning to do something of this sort?" and I would say, "Come on mom, do you actually think I would have the guts to do that? In any case, even if I ask for something reasonable, I know you guys wont disagree." and she would pull my cheeks and kiss me which would say, 'that's my girl'. And I would pull her cheeks and say, "Nah, That's my mom!"

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I was always teased at home for wearing a faded jeans and t-shirts in 'family get-togethers', especially by my devil of a cousin. Every time I come, he would say, "Oh look, there comes my dear brother" and I would be fuming inside, thinking how best to get back at him while my mom would quip, "Don't you know? She's the boy and the girl of our family. She would take care of me in the future. I know it. So she's working on it from now itself. I mean, I really don't have any problem with the jeans and all of that, you know" and I would actually run to my mom and hug her! After coming back home, she would say, "Be a girl when you're in the family group. Don't wear jeans next time." And I would smile to myself. Oh, my mom is the coolest.

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Somehow, staying away from mom makes me miss her so much. She gave me freedom which none of my girl friends got, freedom to pursue the course I want, freedom to go anywhere and study, freedom to go anywhere I want to work, freedom to discuss anything with her.

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Oh well, too much to write but too little time.. I love you Mom. I love you... coz you are the best...