MY MOTHER

I searched for the perfect mother everywhere. I saw her in the dignified woman who walked past me everyday and I would wonder-"why can't my mother be like her?".

I would see her in the kind old lady who lent a helping hand whenever and wherever needed and I would think-"That's how my mother should be..."

I would see her in the dynamic woman who took charge and initiated the difference all of us want to make, but do not make the effort to do so. And I would reflect bitterly- "my mother only talks, she never does..."

And then one day I met this friend who had embarked on a similar quest for the perfect parent. "Have you found her?" I asked. "Yes" she replied. "Where?" I eagerly questioned.

" I found her in your mother...."

Nimmou Nilakantan