There are very few people who are
able to do justice with their time on earth. Only handfuls are able to find a
purpose to their life and yet few are able to fulfill it. Mother Teresa was one
of those rare descendants on earth. She in true sense lived and lived a
laudable life. If there can ever be an ideal and meaningful life be led, it was
led by her.
Mother Teresa is an inspiration
to most of us. But owing to my tendency of taking inspiration from people in
the day to day life, I tend to observe the populace around me and thus my
parents are my first and biggest inspiration & motivation. Also generally interacting
with so many beautiful women and Mothers around, comprehending their psychology
and appreciating their mindset, getting greatly influenced by many of them for
various of their characteristic, I come to this conclusion that ‘There is a
Mother Teresa in every Mother’ . Mother Teresa’s life’s most prominent essences
are selflessness and love. And this is what I find common in Mothers across
society. They too live a completely selfless life devoted to their children
& family. They bestow all their love and affection, take up all the hardships
effortlessly and never show any sign of distress. For most of us our Dad is our
hero; the fact is many times it is Moms who create that image into our minds. Because
of this trait of ‘giving without expecting’ Mothers epitomize the nature in the
human form and thus are considered God’s delegates on earth. Mothers are
embodiment of love; love in its deepest, purest & truest form-
Unconditional Love. They may get angry or upset but can never ever hate.
Probably hate is too strong a word to associate with Mothers so I will rephrase
it as, they may get angry or upset but they can never ever ‘not love’.
I would like to share few things about
my Mother whose conduct has led me to this impression about Mothers. She is a
very simple lady, she is a home maker, and her life revolves around family. There
are some very influential virtues about her nature; the ideologies that she advocates
and lives with are enlightening. Her decisiveness, courage, ability to be
herself and her resolve to adhere to the righteousness at all times are some of
the qualities that have influenced me greatly. Being at home all day, she
rarely watches television and hardly any serial. She doesn't like to watch any
daily soap on television (Except when I tell her to see a particular dress that
I like J )
her objection is that these shows create a world of extremism. At one hand it
creates extreme negativity on the other hand it portrays a super human flawless
women, both the ends do not exist in the real world and even trying to be like
one puts you under lots of pressure. She loves reading and her favorite are
books on Swami Vivekananda, Gautama Buddha, Kabir & Krishna. She has a
strong believe system, she doesn't believe in religion as much as she believes
in truth and realization. Yet she is not
at all imposing, there are no rules at our home except for being good morally
and well behaved. She is very much against the show off business happening in
the society around her. She refuses to relent to the social pressure and bring
about any kind of unnaturalness into her behavior or life. For her ‘Beauty is
in simplicity & Opulence is in generosity’. But at the same time she is
very broad minded and is very much a believer in women equality and
empowerment, to an extent that is sometimes too much to absorb for so called
modern women. She definitely is an inspiration to me. It’s the value that she
has imparted makes me what I am.
Nowadays with the office going career
oriented and ambitious Mothers it becomes a little difficult to play the dual role.
Though the times & scenario have changed, few things that haven’t changed
and should never ever change are compassion, love, calmness and morality in
women. These are true, inherent and natural characteristics of a woman. As they
say "Woman is a man with a womb", and thus with womb comes these additional characteristics
of love & care. Even in today’s transformed scenario women must not lose
touch with their inherent qualities and they should be cognizant enough to
preserve the serenity endowed to them by the nature. For only a woman with high morals and values
can raise a child to be a good human being and thus contribute in creating a
virtuous society.
