Chill, Mom!
Please chill out, mom - How frequently do you say this? Well, I say it quite often. Is your mom hell bent on making you a better person? A better human being? So is mine! And, by god, it's so annoying! Why can't moms just let their children be? I think it's the Indian culture which has put moms on the same pedestal as the gods. I wonder what the world would be like had we not bestowed such a position on moms. They would have then realized what us 'normal' human beings have to go through. I can see Shakespeare's seven ages unfolding in front of my eyes. As my mom is growing older, she's becoming more and more like a child - whining and crying at every small thing. And now that we are stuck together in the same house, 24X7 because of this godforsaken disease, her journey through the stages has become much evident. Is that what all of human life is? Just 7 stages? What happened to us being the most loved creation of god? If this is what god wanted to mak