My mother's hand lens.

My mother's hand lens: when I visited my mom's place this time I found a small hand lens kept so carefully in a small pouch and an atlas. I asked her what she was doing with the atlas and the lens. What she replied was way beyond my imagination. My brother lives in the US. Every time he changes his address, my mom is finding out the address from the atlas with the help of the hand lens and studying the places nearby. Every night when everyone else is asleep she is busy with this pastime of hers. She says this makes her feel closer to her son who is far away. For me it opened my eyes to another aspect of a mother's love for her child. Unconditional and unfathomable. All this time we have failed to see the longing inside due to the brave front she puts up.

Comments

  1. UnknownApril 12, 2020 at 8:59 AM

    Ha ha ha.. Searching her loved ones through hand lens. .That's too touching 🙏🙏🙏 salute to Mom🙏🙏🙏

    ReplyDelete
  2. LRApril 12, 2020 at 9:11 AM

    Wow! Almost made me cry. Beautiful

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownApril 12, 2020 at 11:46 AM

    Cant say anything more❤

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Spawn

I have a little pond at home which serves as the perennial source of water for my flowers throughout the year. There are also many small fish in the pond which make a routine show of underwater ballet in the morning sun everyday. They have become so used to my harmless presence that they have given up their habit of deep diving the moment they sense my footstep. So, it is peaceful co-existence now...fish, flowers and me. One fine morning, as I bent to collect water from my pond, I saw a strange thing. A long beaded thread like thing, black in colour, each bead about 1 mm in diameter. I tried to touch it with the bucket but it was so slippery. I could not get it out of the water, so I left it there. On further analysis, I came to the conclusion that it must be fish spawn!  There's a friend in my office who recently built a small pond in his house. He bought small fish and put in his pond but all of them died, thereby losing a small sum and a little bit of his enthusiasm in the
Read more

Moonwalk

Friends started posting pictures of the full moon tonight. So, I too went up on my terrace, clicked some photos quickly, chose the best one and posted in all my close WhatsApp groups. There...my duty was done!  Then, as I raised my eyes from my mobile screen, the beauty of the moon took my breath away. Gently floating in the tranquil sky, softly sweeping away the light puffs of white clouds, throwing a silver hue to the whole world and a deep calm and serenity over me...I sat there completely mesmerized. Was this mysticism or hypnotism or simply the true beauty of nature? Being so caught up in the daily grind, I never realised I had been missing out on these things. Even the distant barking of a dog sounds so soft now. The whole world is gripped in the claws of an unseen enemy now. Humanity is being attacked on all fronts. Only our spirit is undaunted. From daybreak to nightfall, the advances of our nemesis is hammering on our heads with relentless force. The futility of all measures,
Read more

The Unmourned Loss

Whether it is a problem of the mind or the heart, I am not sure. There is a young woman who is always going around the neighborhood with her five young children following her around. She seems to be doing nothing except literally roaming around the neighborhood from sunrise to sunset. Her two older children go to school off and on but the younger three are too young for school. In the beginning, I used to wonder whether her mind was deranged or not. But, she talks with everyone quite normally. So I believe that she is just another child among her five children!  Whenever I see her, my heart feels very heavy. What will become of all her children? But I always end up thinking that everything is in God's hands. Even the children brought up with all the facilities turn out bad and those raised from the soil turn out good. There is always something called fate. Then, one day my neighbour informed me that her youngest son who was not even one year old was dead. I was shocked. She always
Read more