It was a pleasant Monday morning when I
reached Bangalore Central Railway Station well on time to catch the Intercity
Express. Soon after the train started, I found myself sitting amid people
speaking only Malayalam. With my very slim ability to speak and understand this
language, and with a lot of struggle, finally I succeeded to tell them that am going
to Kerala to bring back my baby. As much surprise, everybody seemed equally
excited for me to reach the Palghat station where I would meet my baby along
with her grandparents!
It was a total eight hours journey
where every passing moment was bringing me closer to my child. With such
swarming emotions, and uncontrollable happiness, I was just wondering how she
would react upon meeting me after a long duration of ten days…and ten nights! I
was dreaming, she jumping over me with a loud squeal of delight…or she crying
desperately for missing my warmth…or she would expect me to bring some toy!!!
Thoughts of her were so intense
that I didn’t even realize that within half an hour my journey will come to an
end. Very hurriedly then, I purchased few colorful toys from the vendors within
the train. In another few minutes, I started collecting my luggage at one place,
and pulled my neck up for the sharpest possible angle to observe the station
coming nearer… None of the names of any station has filled me with such
enthralling experience ever before, as the name PALGHAT did!
Then came the moment...the much
awaited one!
I don’t know whether it happens to
every mother or not…but by the time I got down from train, my eyes were fixed
only at one being, out of the thousands on that station and I ran much faster
just to clutch her tight in my arms…Getting her glimpse after so many days was
no less than a blessing and that made me realize once again that my daughter is
the world’s most beautiful child!!! To
hold my excitement and control my emotions, I did not utter a word but simply
raised my arms towards her…
Arrival of her mother, all of a
sudden, was like a surprise for her too. She was dumbfounded! She didn’t take
another bite of chocolate, eating already; neither showed any sign of
excitement nor for cry; didn’t jump over in my arms and didn’t even ask for any
toy…..only voice I could hear was coming straight from her eyes…
Yes, she was angry with me!
It’s not that she wasn’t happy
there; it’s just a fact that she missed her mother!
Someone had told me earlier,” you
can express your feelings but you can never express your child’s feelings”. And
now I have understood the meaning of those words completely.
Now it was my turn to payback…she stopped
coming to me willingly, didn’t call me for her vital needs, and forget holding
me while sleeping....and this went on for complete one day one night…
Next morning, when she opened her
eyes, tears rolled down from my eyes, I took her up in my arms, kissed her a
million times and while saying sorry, promised that I will never let her stay
away from me in future…
Again she started calling her mother
for everything, again she started hiding behind curtains and asking me to look
for, again she started dancing on my rhymes, and again she gave me all the
pleasures of world!
She thus taught me a lesson which I
would never forget. She thus made me realize the depth of a mother-child
relationship once again!!!
