"A WOMAN WHO HAS IMPRESSED ME THE MOST"

MOTHER: The word itself is synonymous with infinite emotions poured out all at once. it attributes to the world the most precious and the purest relationship of mankind. according to me my mother is one woman whom i look upto and who has impressed me the most. it is our mother who brings us into this world and makes our world beautiful. i have seen and realised that at each and every step of life, my mother has been there with me to hold me, to support me and to protect me if the path ahead was cobbled up and undulated. she has always been there to tend me , to console me with her sugary piece of advice which is like a tonic for my pains, my worries, my doubts and my my questionaires.. i am not impressed by my mother only because i share an emotional attachment with her but also because of her emotional attachment with eveyone i something that i have considered before penning down and putting my mother in the category of "a woman who has impressed me the most".
going down memory lanes and reminisces, i have a coherent recollection of a few unforgettable moments which have their footprints in my mind.it so happened that my father was out of station for some work and i was quite young at that time. my mother was laid up with fever since a few days. weakness suppressed her physical and mental faculties. during this humdrum affair, the news of the arrival of some close guests was far from reassuring. within no time my mother gathered strength and did all the preparations (my help was of no avail to her). eventually the guests arrived and the flawless and the meticulous arrangements were appreciated to a great extent. my mother has never given me any lessons or any lectures. it never took her hours to explain the situation. she just performed it and it was always instilled in my mind. the message that my mother gave me after this situation was that " difficulties in our life do not come to destroy us...... but to help us realise our hidden potential. let difficulties know that we are difficult to defeat ".
another incident goes like this.............. my father was seriously ill and my younger brother was barely one month old and i, 11. as my exams were approaching, my mother had to teach me as always. my brother needed attention and my father needed help. though i do not have a detailed account of how my mother managed to beat the situation, yet i know that whatever she did and however she did is something which needs an outstanding ovation. very soon life assumed its unvaried and monotonous pitch....... years passed by...... but the memory leaves never faded away from my mind..... through this episode i came to know that my mother has always taken her responsibilities and has carried herself in such a way so as to beat all the blues. and this is something which has left me under awe. 469
the most impressive thing about my mother is her ability to convince and impress almost everyone she meets. my mother has been my best friend and will continue to do so inspite of the " generation gap" that is between us, the ability of my mother to understand me and my feelings is incredible and it leaves me spellbound. she has shaped my life- my world beautifully. the world is however very rough and harsh. but i am sure that the qualities which have been instilled in me by my mother will enable me to discern the right from the wrong, the necessary from the superflous and the truth from the false. it will definitely help me to face the world better than anyone and whatever i do, whosoever i become, wherever i go i will be able to hold my head high. considering myself as a girl my mother has been the world's best 'mother', as a student my mother has been the best teacher- my beacon of light and as an individual she has been a best human being and is responsible for instilling in me a true human spirit.
last but not the least i would sum up just by writing my mother's philosophy of life which has influenced me the most-
" listen to the exhortation of the dawn!
look to this day! for it is life,
the very life of life,
in its brief course lies all the realities of our existence:
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty,
for yesterday is but a dream and
tomorrow is only a vision:
but today well -lived makes,
every yesterday a dream of happiness and
every tomorrow a vision of hope!!
look well therefore to this day-
such is the salutation of the dawn!!!!! "


PRIYANKA BHARGAVA