Today I received a call at 3:56 am. at first I ignored it then the second time it rang I just peeped in to check who is it ? it was one of ma best fnd whom I have been knowing for past 10 years. Then suddenly I felt a glup in ma stomach & I felt ashamed of myself . Is she calling for an emergency?? how can I be such irresponsible , though I was never responsible b4 but still !!!
Normally I start ma conversation with the usual equities & I knew 100 of them but right now nothing came to ma mind . I was totally blank , & she didn’t speak for a while too . May be bcoz she felt it odd since I never use to be quite over the phone at least . Or is it bcoz she doesn’t know wat to say ???
No matter how advanced we are or the n no of equipments or gadgets we have now at our disposal but still we are far from being equipped for the emergencies . nothing but our mind & self presence only comes handy at those moments .
Though it was just a few seconds gap but it felt to me like ages .
Then a sweet murmur came frm the other end it was so feeble that I barely heard anything at the beginning. But as soon as I heard her voice all ma worries went to bay .though I didn’t knew the content yet but there was no sense of fear or urgency in her tone , half of ma worries were gone I was now confident & alert enough to deal with any situation . I was ready not bcoz I had to .she was there with me all these years through the thick & thin & not only in ma gud or bad times but also in ma ordinary time s since ma 75 % or more of ma life constituted of tat . She was there no matter how boring it was .
Sound at the other end said you have to come to ma daughters b day , da u know I have prepared a sadhya & paysam . at tat time I gave a sigh of relief she was so preoccupied in her conversation that she didn’t notice it . Normally she senses tat in a sec. A party again ? Normally they do not party often. they are a typical malayalee family .they would rather save more than wat they spend , but recently they had a party since they had built a house in viyur, kerala .then I tried to be more specific whether u r gng to call all or … she interrupted me & said no just 2 of am brothers , kinnan ( our class mate ) & u . tats it . b4 I culd say anything she said u need not worry “ njyan kazikyubol nine orthollam “ & she smiled . ok ten gud morning & she kept the phone ………..
At first i felt irritated & bit odd she calls me at 3:56 am to invite me to a party which I cant attend though I really wanted to .even Anil Wadhwa ( the ambassador to Oman frm India) would find it difficult to go at such a short notice .since we life in different countries .& there’s no such ‘ sorry to disturb u tis time’ or were u sleeping … no such formalities …..
Then I smiled, she doesn’t have to ….
Now wit all ma sleep gone I though to write a letter of appreciation to her
For inviting me for navni’s b day
For not hesitating to call me at 3:56 am & above all
For being such a nice mother …….. lucky is tat little angel to have her as a mother . really now a days how many of us do such things for our dear & near ones , since she’s a working she did what she wanted to b4 hand . we often check our schedules b4 saying yes I wld be there or off course u can count on me .i have often heard excuses & one of ma best is ‘ at least I did this na ‘ I am not saying tat you should work till dawn to give a decent b day party to u r daughter , but still there are a 100 s of thing that u can do !!!!!!!!
We all know that at the end of the day only our family & fnds wld be there yet we spend half of the day in office but hardly an hour with the people whom we should be with.. Some might say everyone is like that or I’m like that all these years, so why there should be a change now.. But the fact is that we all can change ourselves.. or in simple words, better late than never…
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