Sunday, 11 June 2017

Mother-daughter cycle

  • I often heard you say, “You can understand the pain of a mother when you will become a mother yourself.” But I failed to understand why you never felt the pain of being a daughter though you already were the same once. I was always forewarned about the future but why mum you seemed to have forgotten the past. Did you ever think of me as a girl when you tried to indicate your agony as a mother? I always wondered what pain did I give you to be formally told to be thinking about my future.
Indeed every girl is destined to be married one day and give birth to a child. And, undoubtedly the process of bearing a child is not an easy task is what I have now got to learn but being a daughter should not really be a curse. I remember you took pain in rearing me, you were troubled when I fell sick and you often must have cried finding me hurt. But does all that mean you keep warning me of the days to come? Isn’t it in a way creating a whole lot of negative aura around?
There were times when you invited guests home when I desperately needed you by my side…read more