She was looking out of the window of the office bus that she was travelling in on a Friday morning when she saw a two wheeler being driven by a person with, maybe, his daughter in the back seat who was trying to read for an exam. She suddenly remembered her school/ college days when her dad used to drop her at the examination center. He would take leave on that day to make sure his daughter reaches the examination hall on time and used to wait till the exam was over to bring her back.
She missed him; she wondered what he was doing at that time and immediately called him. He spoke to her with usual questions about his son-in-law and his granddaughter. He asked whether she wanted to speak to her mom, but she politely refused saying that she was on the way to office. She cut the call and looked out the window again. The girl and her dad on the two-wheeler were gone.
She decided that she would go and meet her parents this weekend. It has been a long time since she visited them; maybe more than 15 days though they were in the same city. She wanted to go there and get pampered. She could be free; not that she did not have freedom in her house now, but to be at your parents' house has a different feeling than to be in your own house. You feel you are relieved of all the tensions. She wanted to have no control anymore. She thought it would be better to let someone else handle her life.
She had to get up early in the morning, get herself ready and get her daughter ready for school. Also, prepare breakfast, lunch for all 3 members in the family and as soon as she reached home, prepare dinner and make sure her daughter's homework is complete. If there was a party or a function on a weekday then it requires a little more planning and running around. After all this, she was thinking that she was not having enough time to spend with her parents ever. On top of this, she would have pressure at work and travel takes most of the time. With this busy life it was getting difficult for her to continue, but she was just trying to make sure that their future is safe.
You cannot always live in the present, she thought. There are so many things to take care of; daughter's studies and wedding, home loan, their retirement and many more things that worry her and thinking of this, she again pacified herself that whatever she was doing was right. She continued to look around looking specifically at no one and thinking nothing in particular.
Once she reached office, she kept aside all her thoughts and concentrated on finishing her work for the day. With required breaks, and spending quality time with friends at work during lunch, she finished her work and promptly went back to take the bus back to her house. As soon as she reached, she got fresh and prepared dinner; helped her daughter with her studies and went to bed after having their family dinner.
Next morning, she woke her daughter up for her final exam for that year. After sometime she wished her daughter 'All the best' for her exam and saw her off when her daughter got on to the two-wheeler with her Dad and opened the book and held it against his back to start revising.
She smiled, went back into the house, closed the door contented that her daughter was also growing up the way she did and was not missing the simple things in life.
******************** THE END *************************
~ R-Square
She missed him; she wondered what he was doing at that time and immediately called him. He spoke to her with usual questions about his son-in-law and his granddaughter. He asked whether she wanted to speak to her mom, but she politely refused saying that she was on the way to office. She cut the call and looked out the window again. The girl and her dad on the two-wheeler were gone.
She decided that she would go and meet her parents this weekend. It has been a long time since she visited them; maybe more than 15 days though they were in the same city. She wanted to go there and get pampered. She could be free; not that she did not have freedom in her house now, but to be at your parents' house has a different feeling than to be in your own house. You feel you are relieved of all the tensions. She wanted to have no control anymore. She thought it would be better to let someone else handle her life.
She had to get up early in the morning, get herself ready and get her daughter ready for school. Also, prepare breakfast, lunch for all 3 members in the family and as soon as she reached home, prepare dinner and make sure her daughter's homework is complete. If there was a party or a function on a weekday then it requires a little more planning and running around. After all this, she was thinking that she was not having enough time to spend with her parents ever. On top of this, she would have pressure at work and travel takes most of the time. With this busy life it was getting difficult for her to continue, but she was just trying to make sure that their future is safe.
You cannot always live in the present, she thought. There are so many things to take care of; daughter's studies and wedding, home loan, their retirement and many more things that worry her and thinking of this, she again pacified herself that whatever she was doing was right. She continued to look around looking specifically at no one and thinking nothing in particular.
Once she reached office, she kept aside all her thoughts and concentrated on finishing her work for the day. With required breaks, and spending quality time with friends at work during lunch, she finished her work and promptly went back to take the bus back to her house. As soon as she reached, she got fresh and prepared dinner; helped her daughter with her studies and went to bed after having their family dinner.
Next morning, she woke her daughter up for her final exam for that year. After sometime she wished her daughter 'All the best' for her exam and saw her off when her daughter got on to the two-wheeler with her Dad and opened the book and held it against his back to start revising.
She smiled, went back into the house, closed the door contented that her daughter was also growing up the way she did and was not missing the simple things in life.
******************** THE END *************************
~ R-Square
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