Mom.......... I realy want to be like you.

My mom... she is first graduate of her family. She was good at studies and no doubt she is hardworking. She got a job and is doing it happily. When we (me and my brother her 2 kids) were younger I remember her day.... it used start with tea for my father and grand father then breakfast followed by making lunch ready before 8.30 as she has to catch the bus at 9.15 because her office is 25km away from city. The work from 10 to 6 in office. And used to reach home by 7. Though she used to get too much tired and exhausted there was no excuse as we were having so many things to tell her or ask her or get from her (our home works, assignments, studies, speaches, art, craft, projects... all of it). She used to handle everything from getting vegetables, fruits, dry fuitrs, grossary shopping and what not. All this with full of interest and enthusiasm. Including all the celebrations like our birthdays, diwali, dasra, our gatherings, sports days, family get-togathers.

I mean now when I am writting this.. I feel so bad that I hardly do anything of it myself even now.. feeling shameless. Obviously we had television to watch but it was for limited time and even when she had time then she never took up any serial or any hobby for that matter.. actualy nothing for herself. Rather she invested all her time to make hobby time for us it includes many of my dance classes, music classes for my brother, drawing and swimming classes. She literally took pains to make us enjoy our childhood to the fullest. I really have question to myself 'Will I able to do even a percentage of it for my mother ?' . I want her to take of herself.. I want to look after her, make special dishes the way she did for me. I had always been annoying or rejecting anything that she had made or many a times said that 'I don't like it' but now I am not sure if I will be able to deal with this if someone says this to me...

She loves shopping. But I don't have time for it. We live in same city do talk every day. Things changes drastically when I got married. I got a chance to look at my mother as another lady... may be because I wanted someone to look up to me like that... this urged me to search my hero and better late than never.. I realize its my MOTHER is my HERO :) My inspiration, my hobby master. Mom I love you for everything and my respect grows thinking of you as how well you have handled all the situations in life ! Bless you !!!