Farhin Ahmed Mim
The one person we take for granted the most. The person who deals with everything that is wrong with us, the one who knows us more than we do and someone who has the solution to all the problems. Our moms wake up before everyone and super early on week days and weekends no matter if they work inside or outside their homes and go to bed the last because they are magical creatures that no one else can match who are the greatest managers in the world.
But that’s old story isn’t it? You’re just used to getting your room in a tidy and perfect condition, your clothes perfectly laundried and ironed and put away in a neat stack, food on the table and a nice warm house to live in. If you could run in your mom’s shoes for day, just one, do you think you would survive? You probably do because you are ungrateful and too busy to notice this one person who you could not survive without one day.
I used to think I am super strong and independent until I found myself running to my room literally crying when my parents were leaving me for good 8 months half way across the world in Waterloo. I woke up everyday knowing she would run to the kitchen to make me fresh breakfast and she would bug me to get off my phone and of course, study. But alas, I found myself in a new big unknown yet perfect world with my mom absent in it. I had friends, counselors, food, clothes and everything one would need to live pleasantly, I was living my dream but what is a dream if I can’t share it with my mom?
Hence I am sorry mom I was nagging you for cooking fish curry and ‘lau-chingri’ that I hate, I am sorry for not cleaning after my mess, I am sorry for taking you for granted. Our moms are actually the most precious beings on earth to us so try giving back a little before time runs out because the ones who do not have a mother truly know the pain.