Like everyday, Mohini wakes up before everyone else in the house. As soon as she wakes up she calls her parents and goes in the kitchen to prepare milk and chai then breakfast in the kitchen…
Everything seems to be in a Jiff, making the hot water for her baba to gurgle, making the tea .. her ma prefers hot milk tea whereas her baba prefers rather the doctor has prescribed without milk without sugar tea … Looking after their only pet dog Babun is also in her daily To – do list. After this she prepares the breakfast.. and tries to make it interesting and tasty so that her parents enjoy as her parents can only enjoy few things of life and for her it always seemed she should give them everything to be genuinely happy … She quickly went towards the room and saw her mom already waken up sitting still.. waiting for Mohini to come and take her to the washroom.
She came said to her father, ” you know ma woke up first today, let me take her to the bathroom then it will be your turn. ”
One after the other she took both of them to the washroom and helped them. After returning made sit on sofa and by this time tea was ready …
The slow sipping of the tea makes the urgent rush to think about what shall we make today for lunch , as Mohini don’t have much time left she works in an office too.. with a brief family discussion she decides to prepare upma ( A South Indian dish ) for lunch with some papad. This will be very quick and tasty too … She quickly enters the kitchen and starts to prepare the lunch.
She prepares and goes to be ready to go the office. She has taken extra permission from office that her working hours will be 11am to 8pm. An extra late hour that she will serve in place of morning hour . She has lot of restrictions with old parents there are many more restrictions… It’s not that she doesn’t enjoys but sometimes it feels mundane and rest of the days she feels extremely blessed that she can serve her parents .
Let’s know the story why Mohini has so much restrictions where with corperate job she teaches dance to children on weekends… Trying to make sure both ends meet. Why Mohini cannot enjoy like Bhuban, Rani and Sonal who are her friends , why? It’s because with old age both of her parents have lost their eyesight.
Both.
We all know eye are our sense organs and they are extremely important for all of us.. loosing eye sight means loosing a part of life where only imagination works more than reality… Her father had glucoma for more than 3 years and doctor said nothing can be done now except the normal daily medication. On the other hand her mother lost eye sight due to age .. she had minus eye power where she had to wear spects all day long but with time her eye power has increased and now she is completely blind as declared by the doctor. So taking care blind parents doubles the difficulty level but she had to do it without confidence and blessings of elders.
Ting ting!
The calling bell rang and here Mohini is back from her office.. went to her parents and asked all good? And it is clearly instructed to them not to open the door other than Mohini.
It has been a long day. Most of her days are long . Very long and tiring .
She goes inside the kitchen and starts cooking the dinner and preparing herself for the next day.
We have so many Mohini ‘s all around us so many, who works so hard each day, building something, doing so much for the family… Working hard and hard. It doesn’t matter much whether it’s done by a woman or man what matters is the dedication towards family. It’s always genuine.
–
Written by Sayoni Mahapatra Chatterji
We write blogs and we would love to invite you to read our blogs and share honest feedback with us
Early Morning Memories 