Mother-Son relationship is always a special one, it is unlike
any other relationship. A mother can have any number of children, she will
always love them equally they say but a son is always special to her. For the
son also, his mother is always special. The father gets him all the toys he
wanted as a kid and also as a grown up, he is always the pillar on which a son
would support himself but ask him he will say that it is the mother that is
special to him. It is the mother that he spends most of his time with while
growing up, given the traditional Indian family set up it’s bound to be that
way later on too. A daughter is not supposed to be in the family forever, the
father is busy earning the family bread and hence the mother-son bond is very
special.
While growing up it is the mother that feeds the son however
reluctant he might be to eat, she will not force him rather she would patiently
wait, tell stories to divert his attention to the things around him and in
between all this fool the son and feed him, she does this in the morning,
afternoon, evening and at night day after day with a new technique each day
until the son learns to properly feed himself. If the son falls sick she would
never leave his side until he feels well and the son would never feel well if
she is not by his side.
As a kid anybody would get that attention, but a mother does not
do this when her son is 5 years old, she does it even when he is 25.If the son
is far off, she would expect him to call everyday, each time she would ask,
“Beta, kya khaye ho?” that primarily is her only concern. Of course, the son
even though he has not had anything remotely close to good food will not let
his mother know of the mess he is in, but she would know because whenever the
son visits home he is much leaner than the previous visit.
No poet nor writer has ever come close to describing a mother,
many have tried, a lot has been written in many languages (all languages in
fact) but nobody can ever do justice. A mother does so much for her children
and never expects anything in return, “Unconditional Love” they call it, a
small word for a very big sacrifice. Every son would say proudly that his is
the Best Mother, true all of them are but a Son he can at best, be good. Being
the Best son may need a few sacrifices from the son’s part, so he would prefer
being good. Mothers are the winners.
Even though the Son acknowledges all this, at a phase in life
there would be another woman in his life, the first thought of it would make
the mother jealous(true, I’ve seen it).She would very quickly accept the fact
because at one point in her life she has been that woman to her husband. But
what’s baffling is how can the son love another woman in his life more than his
mother? What’s even more surprising is, how can he believe that another woman
would love him more than his mother?
