Part 1: Our Loving Mothers: Story of “A son & motherâ€
When I was a student of elementary school, my mother used to give me snacks for tiffin break but the quantity was just like a heavy lunch since I could not take breakfast so early morning. Though I was enjoying the food but felt little shy for the amount. Sometimes I shared that with my friends too so that they would not laugh at my big tiffin box. But, almost every day, I used to tell my mother, not to give so much food to me which was an embarrassment for me. One day I forgot to take my Tiffin-box in school. The Art/Drawing class which took place just before the tiffin period was very painful for me as I was starving. I started drawing chocolates & ice-cream and surprisingly I drew a Tiffin box also. With my utmost surprise a beautiful woman entered in my classroom with the permission of my subject teacher. She was wearing a blue saree and tied up her long thick silky hair with a blue ribbon. . We all looked at her. With smiling face she was carrying a tiffin box & she was no one but my loving mom. My mother hardly visited my school since she used to do her job. So she was not familiar to all the students of our class. I just looked at my mother & thought Allah sent her there for me, I would not be hungry in rest of the school time. My friend, Moushumi, who used to sit beside me, told, “O God, your ammu is so beautiful….she is so pretty!†After her departure my teacher asked the class, “Isn’t Farhana’s mother looking very lovely?†The students replied altogether, “Yes miss.†I felt so good, still now I can listen the combined compliments of my classmates. After many years, when I grew up, people started saying, “You are beautiful, but not as beautiful as your mother.†Felt so proud of my mother’s beauty & said 'Sukria' to Allah! Now, after some decades, when I sit beside my mother, I look at her aged face & I cannot control myself. I just fight back with my tears. Diabetics, osteoporosis & four major operations have taken away her that praiseworthy beauty. Surprisingly, my 5 ft 4 inch mother has lost her height also! She is no more a tall, bold, beautiful woman. But still now her eyes are as bright as they were in my childhood. I look at her eyes & pray silently so that these eyes can see me years after years. Now, dear readers, you may think, why I’m writing this, especially today? The reason is, yesterday my younger son, Mashraf, who reads in class 10 in St Joseph School, mailed me a story about a ‘Son & Mother’ which he read just then. He wrote me,
“Mom, tears are rolling down… can’t write a word… just forwarding you a story…LOVE U MOM…..LOVE U & LOVE U......â€After reading the story I just went back to my elementary school, to my loving mother. And felt like sharing my feelings with some souls who really feel for their mothers in different ways........
Dear readers, I'll share with you that touchy story sent by my son Mashraf “A son & motherâ€........