“Ineffable” is the word I would use to describe the feeling of having a mother like I do. In fact, at times, I wonder “What about the ones who aren’t blessed with a mother?” In that case, I feel that I’m lucky enough to be blessed with the world’s most beautiful gift. Without taking it for granted, I use every opportunity to bring a smile on to the prettiest face on earth, my mother.


The funniest thing is, when you actually think of the time when you made your mother smile, there’s nothing that you’d be able to think of because all the things I’ve done for my mother is NOTHING compared to sacrifices she has given, the pain she has gone through and all the mental trauma she has faced but the irony lies in a mother’s answer, when she’s asked the same question, the only answer she would have is “All the things that you do makes me smile” That is the simplicity and the beauty of a mother which nobody else but only she can understand.


Sometimes I think to myself “How can she like everything I do, everything I wear, everything I say?” The only answer that comes to my mind is: Because she’s a mother! There’s nothing in the world that’s like her and there’s nothing in the world that can see me the way she does. I wonder, “What would it be like to be in her shoes & look at things from her perspective?”


I take every opportunity to learn from my mother because I’m quiet certain that there’s nothing in this world which could guide me better than her and according to me, every mother wishes to see a bit of herself in their child. Oh there! That answers all my questions and the only thing that brings a smile to my mother’s face is being able to see herself in me.


My life is like a photo album, as we grow with time, we reflect back to the past. In the same way, as I grow, I learn to treasure the world’s greatest gift even more and wish to see a little more of her in myself with each passing day which definitely brings a smile to her face!