When the heat subsided a bit in the evening, I sat next to businessman Nisha. Her mother-in-law has been ill for several days. Thought I should bring the news and also come and sit. While I was sitting, my three sisters-in-law also came. “mother-in-law, how are you?” After completing her manufacturing query, she started drinking tea and water leisurely.
Then mother-in-law started talking one by one. Only complaints, when I came, mother-in-law said this, said that, did this, did that. After half an hour everyone left saying that they had to prepare dinner. The children are waiting. No one even went to mother-in-law’s room.
After he left I asked Nisha, Nisha! mother-in-law, today I have been ill for a year and am with you. It doesn’t come to your mind to hire someone else or do their work, she is everyone’s mother.
I became numb after hearing his answer. She said, “Sister, my mother-in-law is the mother of seven children. While raising her children and giving them a good life, she never cared about her own happiness and brought up everyone well. What you are seeing is not my house, my husband. Son, all the glory and honor is the gift of my mother-in-law.
Everyone has their own understanding. I think about what should I feed them, how much happiness should I give them, my sons and daughters sit with their grandmother in the morning and evening, she smiles at them, with her weak hands she caresses their forehead, face and body and consoles them. Gives full blessings.
When I bathe, feed and serve them, I feel blessed to see the expression of satisfaction on my husband’s face. There is a feeling in the mind as if one has got the greatest happiness in the world.
And then she said very enthusiastically, there is one more thing, wherever she stays, there will be happiness in the house, she has become my third child. And saying this she started crying.
I was surprised to see his wisdom at this time, I hugged him to my chest and bowed to him in my mind and appreciated him. How some vested interests and their own people make various excuses and reject the idol of their love and affection for the sake of their freedom and luxuries.