A Mother is a ray of Hope

I am grateful for her existence. I know I’ll never go poor as long as I have my mother in my life.

Amit Singh

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I believe – easily, firmly, with an unshakeable surety – that a mother is your truest friend. She will always guide you. Every time you feel like your lifeboat, in the sea of hopelessness, is sinking, she’ll travel at a speed of 620,616,629 mph, and save your day. A mother is a ray of hope.

When I was a child, I would run to my father while he wiped in the backyard his bicycle. “Take me on a bicycle ride with you,” I would say. “I am going to pee on the saddle if you don’t.” Maa would run outside hearing her firstborn’s voice and smile— the way the sunflowers smile on a sunny day.

For the longest time, I’ve looked at the world through a broken lens: there’s nothing around me if not chaos. But maa has taught me that not all bad comes from it. “Without chaos, there wouldn’t be fear, nor anger, nor love,” she says. Sometimes I wonder if she says what she says only because her name is Shanti, a name which comes from śānti, peace, tranquility, the satisfaction in doing the right thing, a baby crying after birth, drawing in his first breath. But for the most part, I believe her. I am grateful for her existence. I know I’ll never go poor as long as I have my mother. •

(Amit Singh hails from Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh. He has

completed his graduation from MATS University, Raipur)