Sweet memoirs of my parents

All these days, it never occurred to me that I should write down something like this. Today however, I was reading a blog entry by someone that described sweetness of her mum led me to think what the heck, I never have penned down anything like this, shame on me.

While growing up, my mum used to be an extremely strict mum and I would lie if I say I used to love her then. However, as I reached around 18 - 19, I realized what is her love like. My mum will often be the one who will check our time tables and will get up well before the time and finish cooking, packing for us and then will wake us up from bed. She often brings me tea to the bed, and I always used to get irritated when she would wake me up. After tea when I leisurely go to brush my teeth, she would have already heated water in the kitchen, poured them in bathroom bucket and would have mixed them with cold water to make it bath-able. She will be the one to check if I have pressed clothes ready to wear, if not she would go press them and put them in the bathroom. Then I would go take bath as though I am doing a great favour to her. Then I would make face that it is getting late, but she would manage to run behind me with food and make me eat and put the bus fare as well as tiffin box inside my college bag. Oh mum how can I pay you back for all that you did for me? There are uncountable number of such things that she did for me that only bring tear to my eyes. Oh my great mum, hope I will be able to tell you how much I love you one day. I pray god to give my mum all the happiness and health in the world.

My dad on the contrary showered his love and affection in a different way. He would always be waiting for us if we are delayed by even 5 minutes from school/college. He would accompany me for all the exams/tests and will be waiting patiently till the exams are over. He will never buzz even little bit from his waiting place. He is the sweetest dad one can ever have. Recently 3 years back he came to visit us in California. We often use to take the trails to walk and when they were not around I always used to walk alone. But after they came, although my dad will not be able to keep pace with me when I walk up hill, but he will not stop and continue to walk till I am visible. I did not know he was doing this for a long time, when I discovered it one day, I realized what parents are and what their love is.. Please god bless my parents and give them all the happiness in the world that they truly deserve.