Amma came Home

Dear M Maami,

A well written piece.

You really brought amma home. I was thoroghly choked while reading and was not able to finish also. It is always sad people do everything after the person is gone and do not care for them when they are there.

It is real irony !

Dear Mithilaji,

Lovely write up on how parents will be parents-Kind & forgiving even after undergoing all sorts of atrocities from their own flesh & blood.

Reminded me of a Chinese story where the daughter took care of her parents. They were both terminally ill. The son did not care for them.

But the son built a grand mausoleum for them after they died. When the people rediculed the son for neglecting his parents when they were alive & building a grand structure after their death, the spirit of the parents spoke out saying " Each kid served us in her/his own way".

The people were stunned by this. Goes to show parents are parents.

Regards,

Corallux

Hi Mithila
So touchy and sad story. You stories touches those string of heart which aches.
Reading such stories I feel why can't people love each other when they r alive and express they love, Life is so short, let us share love then keeping bad things about another person in mind.
Thanks for joining IL to give us such lovely write ups

Dear Mithila..

so well written and heart touching....my God few sentences takes breathe away, so much reality...no words to describe this pain and suffering of elder people. But very very true the way you described..

dear Mithila,

After ages, I read a blog with tears flowing down my cheeks... My heart weighs a ton now... I hope this is pure fiction....

Dear Mithila,
So very well writtern....Cant wink while reading this great piece..Truly touching..

HI,
its a wonderful write up mithila ,thanks for sharing it with us.
shashi.

As much hilarious you could get with those humor-filled narrations I read before, so much pathose you could create with this touching narration , depth of the situation and choice of words. Net net, you write to stay in our heart :)

Great work indeed.. Yeh dil maangae more.

Mithila,
I suspected this ... after 2 or 3 lines...but this happens in reality, which is not accepted by anyone...but for parents, their children are always a children, who don't know anything..this goes with the proverb--'peththa manam pitthu, pillai manam kallu'..
This story reminded me of an incident narrated in a TV programme--- The mother of a guy who conducts kumbabishekam, laments when asked why she is not present at that time in the temple...she replies---he doesn't look after me at home, but he does everything for the Goddess, which is purely a show-off'..

Looking after the parents is itself a tavam as described by Vyasar to his son Sukar..

very well written...

sriniketan

Oh my dear mithila mam..
i am speechless.....i am with tears rolling from my eyes....what to say or write!? stunned for few minutes...then heaved a big sigh..yes it is the clear picture of the attitudes. absolute fact. you have brought it out very well with good narration. i have seen the same scenes in a lot of families. why no importance for the elders when they are alive and all these care after their death!!! this thought has been in my mind right from the childhood. in my own family it happened to my patti. so i took an oath even before my marriage..whether i adhere to the strict principles of srartham and do it or not..i should never disrespect their feelings and wishes of my M and F inlaws till they are alive. and take care of them fulfilling their wishes and desires. till this second all the sons and daughters in the family, we daughters in law are doing our best and my inlaws are also very vry happy with us and with our loving service.

A very good write up. excellent!!

love
geeth