…more than any other title in the world
“Dear Maa, who were you before you became my mother?” It is true that the age of the child and mother is same but it is also true that Maa was once a little girl too, full of dreams, ambitions and larger-than-life ideas. Why do we never talk about that girl? She also must have had her hobbies, interests. She also would have liked to have her tea in silence, without interruption. How is it that I never saw her throwing tantrums when it all became too much? How come I don’t remember seeing her at her weakest or at her worst?
Now, after becoming a mother myself, these thoughts hit differently, as do so many other things. I try to go down the memory lane and remember myself as that little girl but cannot. It’s like we are talking about two different lives altogether, because motherhood changes us completely. Earlier the affairs of the world – climate change, water crisis, politics, pollution – would affect me as a person but now almost every news article affects me as a parent. I can only think of how it’s going to shape the future of my child. Now I see everything through the lens of a mother.
I also believe we become the best and the truest version of ourselves when we spend time with our little ones; and more than any other title in the world, I love being called “Maa” the most.
A dear friend asked me, how do you feel being a mother and my reply was “I can’t describe this feeling because it doesn’t even come close to anything I have ever felt before. I don’t think a word has been or could be coined to describe this journey.”
Quotation by Elizabeth Stone describes it all: “To have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
by Anuja Agarwal (Mahagun Morpheus; 9717943291)
