A Letter - Straight from my mom's heart..

I’ve just finished the lavish dinner prepared by my sweet mom. This takes me 3 years down the memory lane, when I was staying away from my mom because of my professional responsibilities.
The weekend had just got over and I had to return to my ‘job town’. I reached home and started unpacking my luggage. Suddenly I felt my hands rubbing through some sheets of paper, which made me wonder if I had picked up the wrong luggage. I shuffled through the bag and noticed some papers nicely folded and put over the top of my clothes. With trembling hands, I unfolded those without realizing that they could be a guide map to my entire life..

This was a 3 page long letter, written to me by my dearest mom. Not all the moms might have written this kind of letter to their children, but I’m sure all of them would have wished to convey the same thing. So sharing this on behalf of all the moms, acting as their daughter J

These are the EXACT words written in that letter: [please ignore any grammatical mistakes as this straight from HER HEART”..

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My ever dearest and never forgettable daughter Preet,

I know you are the gem of our family. But I want this gem to shine most so that I can feel proud of my loving daughter. But there are some suggestions that I want to give you, on behalf of a mother. You have both inner and outer beauties, but your inner beauty has to come out properly. I hope I’ve chosen a right way to make my voice reach to you by writing. As parents, there are many times, when we can’t say what we want to say to our children and then, only the pen’s words become our real companions that help us achieve that goal.

The Almighty has blessed you with most of the good traits like honesty, hard working, and truthfulness, social, caring more for the family but less for yourself, sincerity towards your occupation. I am highly grateful to my waheguru [God], who has blessed me with such a daughter. As each mother knows that a daughter is always a pillar for ‘two’ families, I want to give you some tips that will sublime your future as well as your present. When we can use 24 hours for ourselves, why hesitate in spending even 24 minutes to thank that God? It is our moral and essential duty to bow before him and devote some time to thank him each day.

A daughter is not only the daughter; she has to play multiple roles in her life. She has to be a mother, a wife, a friend, a professional; she has the power to play so many roles at once. The main concern for man in this era is money. If you have money, even your enemies become your friends. Don’t take me wrong here that I want you to run after money. I hope you have understood what I’m trying to say here. My message here is that you yourself are the best earner, but at the same time try to be the ‘best server’ as well. Your savings will be your best friends when none of your relatives are with you or all your other sources vanish. Habit of present saving is your best future. Money never gets saved by itself; rather you have to save it.

I hope you will not take my advice otherwise, but will think that your real friend has suggested you some tips of happy and glorious life. Please do not mind this at all and may god bless you always.

Moreover, money is a destined to be given by God, otherwise a laborer would have become the richest person by his hard work. But it’s all in the hands of almighty, he gives it to those who are just happy with that only. Just look at the people who are rich and are just happy with their lives in the way they are living it. Why don’t all the good hearted and caring people blessed with too much of richness, because God has sent them on the earth for a different purpose.

I always pray to almighty that he teaches me to listen to those who are nearest to me, my family, my friends, my co-workers. I want to listen to the voice of my conscience patiently and act accordingly so that I never go astray and can achieve my goal of a happy and prosperous family. Money can’t make anyone strong but it’s our values and strong support of the family that makes us strong. There are some people who stand for the truth always, learn fast and work while the rest of the family is asleep. They are the pillars of the family, of the relations. So I’m the lucky mother who has been blessed with gems [my kids]. My kids are my money, they are my treasure, and they are my luxuries.

Always remember that petty things do not matter much in the longer run. Never show your weaknesses to anyone rather show your boldness and your strengths.

To live the most honorable and prosperous future, always remember:

3 S’s in life:

Sympathy, Savings and Sweetness

3 T’s in life:

Tolerance, Teachings of parents, gurus and elders, Truthfulness

And 3 P’s in life:

Progress, Politeness and Piousness of life.

My dear daughter, please take the above words as my blessings because what can’t be cured by medicines, can be cured with blessings.

Dear daughter, please ignore my grammatical mistakes because I did not focus on them as the feelings were coming straight from my heart. I hope you won’t take this as a ‘lecture’ from your mom but will accept this as a little effort from my side and won’t take too much of stress because of this. Only then, I’ll consider my efforts being fruitful and will consider that the bond between you and me has become even stronger.

Love,
Your foolish mother…
[April, 2004]