Stories For My Mother .1
Everyone is close to their mother. A human who carried you in their womb for 9 months, would love you unconditionally and will never let any harms come to you, unless of course she is not of sound mind, of which, that will be another issue altogether.I was very close to my mother. In this world, there was no person I adored more than my mother. It is not a matter of loving who more, ie, mother, father, wife, kids, siblings etc. It is all different kind of love, just in case my wife or my kids read this post, sometime in the future. Humans have capacity to love more than one and all in different ways.
Back to mothers. Well, I remembered when I was like in Lower Form 6, my eldest sister was down with a stroke. Serious one. My mother delivered food and visited her everyday, without fail, except once. On this particular day, no one was available to send her to the hospital, which is like 40 minutes away by motorcycle (we don't have car at that time, which was like a luxury beyond our means) That being the case, I was asked to send her using my father old motorbike. As luck would have it, half way through, a car almost knocked me from behind, it was so close that the whole motorbike shook and me being inexperienced, lost control of the motorbike. Both of us fell and my mother sort of got flung quite a distance, but not seriously injured. Guess what she did? She immediately got up and rushed to my side, totally ignoring to check whether she herself was injured or not. On the surface, I suffered some abrasions and a bit of bleeding here and there, nothing life threatening.
What hurt and touched me most is, how can a person so totally ignore her own safety and only worry for her son? Maternal instinct? Naturally protective? My eyes wet at times when I really sit back and think about the many sacrifices that my mother went through just to bring us up. I will be sharing more of the stories, those that I can remember. As you see, she has passed away for about 5 years and memory of her starts ebbing away, which, I think shouldn't be allowed. We are talking about a human who don't care about her own safety just so that she can ensure the safety of her offsprings.
posted by d'Frog Prince @ 8:57 PM
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