A Letter after Eight Years

Dated Forever

Dear Mom
Today I sit here thinking about the drama that was executed this day, this time, exactly eight years back when you bid adieu. Since then, there has been too many things happening around. So I just thought of letting you know what all you have missed to witness in this world till date.

If you could have postponed your journey by one year and a half, you could have witnessed your daughter’s convocation ceremony. All I could do is visualize you distributing sweets to your pals to celebrate your daughter becoming a graduate engineer. Also you would have seen your son passing out his board exams with flying colours, which I am sure was most awaited by you. Very soon did I get through my job interview. I did move out to a new phase of my life, while my sweet bro got into his engineering course with ease. Things happened so in such quick succession, but without your physical presence. All I could do was visualize the happiness on your passionate face.

Soon I got going with my job and I started realizing how much you missed the small milestones I reached. My first salary, the first gift I could get you, the first ever business card I got printed for myself, the scooty pep I bought, the weekend trips I made to CBE, the appreciation letters I received, the first promotion and so the list is endless. All I could do is shed a few tears for you before I got to bed every night.

As you taught me, Time waits for no man. Soon it was my brother’s turn to get through three job interviews consecutively even before he was certified as an engineer. Soon he passed through all the good things that happened to me as mentioned earlier. He didn’t stop there, for he got through his fourth one also with ease. By this time, I had already left the country to get my bread faster and better. All I could do was to visualize how you would have felt when you saw him in his formal shirts and pants, riding his bike to office every day.

Thus seven years passed and now it was time for me to tie my knots and move into another phase of life. I know you missed this a lifetime. But all I could do was to place your portrait on the dais.

All this time, I told you about the good things that took place. I don’t want to take you through the little unfortunate things we got through. All I would say is that I know you wanted to guide us through the bad phase of life as well. All I could do was watch your portrait for a minute whenever I felt your guidance was required.

Now here are a couple of points that you will be glad to know. Your son is very much like you. That is very much enough to get thoughts about you to flash across the mind of any soul. Also of late we had a chance to meet many of your friends. Every time I meet someone, my heart beats faster when they talk about you or shed a tear for you.

Now as I complete this short letter, I realized that you are omnipresent and probably you would have witnessed all the incidents that I narrated from the other world. It’s just that you are invisible to us. Though your voice is not audible to the world, it is being heard deep by our minds. The fact is that I have been missing you all this time!!!

Eight years pass by since you bid adieu. But what I am today is what you did to me.

With Tons of luv,
Your beloved child