Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A MOTHER FOREVER 'KNOWS'....

Long back, around 40 years ago when telephones were rare in the country and plastic was unknown in food industry, a young man on his Official tour took his aged mother along with him to show the Temples of Pilgrimage importance around the place of his visit...

The son with his mother checked into a Hotel in the early morning hrs for the stay in the new place.... After readying himself, the son told his mother that he would finish his Office work quickly and would come back by lunch time so that they after their lunch, could go around the place seeing the important Temples in that area.... The mother agreed and the son left for his Work....

But his Office work continued and the son could not make it for lunch.... When it was nearing lunch hr, he quickly got a good hot lunch packed in steel boxes and sent it to his mother through one of his Attendants and asked him to wait till she finished her lunch so that he could bring back the empty boxes.... The Attendant being a local had a difficulty of communicating to the young man's mother as their languages were different and the common language English was unknown to the aged mother and so the son sent a chit through him along with the food asking her to finish the lunch and send back the boxes.... Further to that, he quickly finished his lunch along with his colleagues and was soon back on his job....

Strangely, after an hour the Attendant brought back all the lunch boxes intact.... The son got wondered and could not understand the reason of that.... The Attendant informed him that he handed over the food and the chit to his mother and collected the boxes when she returned them to him.... And the son too immediately could not communicate to his mother as he had to rush for his work....

He finished his work by evening, quickly came back to hotel and was about to enquire his mother why she sent back the lunch boxes intact but as soon as he returned the mother asked, "Dear! Did you eat your food?"

The son replied, "Yes! Mom.... But what happened to you? Why did you not eat anything at all of the meal I sent to you?”

The mother simply showed the chit he had sent along with the lunch boxes.... It was written on that, "You eat and send back the boxes..... I will eat here for today....”

The son immediately could not understand the confusion..... The mother clarified, “You said that you would be eating part of this food after I finish and send it to you....”

The son having got the point, laughed aloud and said, "Then at least, you could have eaten half of it and sent back the remaining.... Why did you not take anything at all?"

The mother smiled and said, “Dear! You will be very hungry and I know your hunger.... Part of that food is never enough for you.... How can I ever think of doing that for you in my life?”

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