Anger!
Yes, the most dreadful enemy you can ever have is your own anger. Its true that you can use the same anger in a positive way but, when it has all the ingredients to spoil you 99 times and help you only once, its an obvious indication that we shed it off, right?!
Set aside the situations wherein our friends, relatives or any other stranger comes under the wrath of our anger. Many a times, probably innumerable times, the one person who is constantly under the wrath of our anger will be our own MOTHER!! Don't agree with me? Then just answer among yourself if you have ever done this to your mom;
" Where's my favourite T-shirt in the cupboard, did you displace it?" "Am not finding my book, did you take it?" "Oh gosh, the same old idlis/dosas/rice, don't you cook anything else?" "Why isn't my clothes ironed, I need them right now?" "I need to watch the English Premiere League, set aside your serial for one day". Atleast I will be honest to myself and say that 'yes', I have treated my mom sometimes as if she is meant to take care of me only and didn' care for her emotions. I know that we all love our mom more than anything in this world, eventhen why do we often keep doing this to our mom?
I know its neither mother's day nor woman's day to bring up this topic, but my plight now made me share it. Recently I had to be alone at home as mom-dad had to go to our village back for some work and so had to manage my duties at the hospital and also look after my tummy 3 times a day. So my mom's concern was as to what will I do with my food arrangements. Before leaving she told some hundered times to take care of it and I was like, 'Mom, am married now. Stop treating me like a kid.' I was confident that I know to cook a few dishes, courtesy again my mom, and I can just pass off these 7 days of self cooking and show to my mom that 'What a big deal!'
Well, for the first two days I did justify myself and cooked something edible and even told my mom that ' Whats there in cooking, see am working and cooking both at the same time. Don't worry.' The third day was my real test, my initial enthusiam was dipping and in the midway of my cookery show, the gas supply ended and had to change it. So due to unexpected interference to my work, my whole process went haywire and my dish was edible just becasue I had nothing else left either to eat or to cook afreash. I was so angry on myself for failing. Come'on! On whom am I angry and why? It took a while to realise that many a times when a lil bit of something was missing in the dishes cooked by mom, I used to tell her" Mom, you are getting old and losing your skills". Pity on me!! My mother has been doing this work of cooking and looking after the family without any complaints for the past 40 odd years and me fed up for just 3 days??? Thats it!?
Its not only my story, many of us behave the same. The present tech-savy generation speaks so politely to some unknown creature on the other side of a phone or ask sorry when we accidentally brush our legs to someone in public or even help pur friends with many stuffs. But how many times have we thanked our mothers for cooking our dishes, washing our clothes and even taking care of us? I don't know why do we have that ego to thank our very own cause of existence. No mother expects her child to appreciate her, thats because she never does these works to impress us. She knows that her child needs her. Its our conscience which has to wake up and realise that she too feels heavens in her arms if her child showers love on her. Though it sounds new to literally thank our mother with words, it has a simple way to do it too. No need to express that openly if you can't, but as pointed out earlier, lets cut down our unwanted anger on our mothers. Do not take her for granted and thats the biggest thanking we can give.Lets wake up, better late than never, and let us take this opportunity to thank our mothers for "BEING OUR MOTHER".
SORRY MOM IF I HAVE HURT YOU EVER AND GIVE ME ANOTHER CHANCE TO BE YOUR OFFSHOOT:-)
