Understanding

It was a beautiful and happy evening with cool breeze. Giggles were all around there. Children were playing with each other. I was sitting with my daughter on an old chair under the tree. She came back home after a year from Bangalore, and in the hunt of spending a quality time we ended up in the park. This is the same park where I used to bring her daily, when she was very small. And, I still remember how she used to love to visit this very own favorite park of hers.

Today also, the moment she saw candy floss, her eyes started sparking like they used to be long back. I grasped her emotions and in the urge of reliving those childhood memory of hers I bought her candy floss, which she used to love, she smiled on holding it in her hands and said to me “Mama I am not 8 year old kid anymore, but love you so much I still love it”! On that I replied “you are still a kid, Ananya and I can see that in your eyes”! She turned her face with little irritation and started to talk about her life in Bangalore.

We sat there for hours. I was missing her since last two months a lot. I am so concerned about her, when she is far away from me. I know her; she is so stubborn that when something doesn’t happen according to her, she gets restless. Once during mid-night my brother had has to actually go to the market to buy her chocolate-barfi that to when all shops were closed. She didn’t get convinced at all and kept on demanding for it during midnight only. However, my brother somehow managed to get her chocolate-barfi. And she slept after eating it only. There are many incidences such like this which I can count on my fingers where she has created scenes on not doing something according to her demands.

People used to say ‘so many tantrums your daughter has’! But none affected me. I loved her and made sure that nothing bothers her. Everyone used to blame me that I am spoiling her. But I never listened to them.

Now, her attitude scares me, make me to worry about her especially when I am not with her. It scares me to think who would have been controlling her in such situations.

Suddenly, I looked at her innocent face which was staring at a kid in front of us. She was looking at him with so much of concern. When I tried to judge the situation, I found out that kid was crying for the candy floss to her mother. And his mother was trying her best to convince him. But he couldn't control his temptation to eat it especially when every child around him was holding one in their hands.

May be she didn't have money to buy one. Of course she wouldn't have, otherwise a mother can’t see her child in pain. Also, she seemed poor to me, but a little kid is unable to understand all these worldly principles where one has to maintain their temptations according to their bank balances.

Ananya, who was also having one candy floss in her hand, suddenly stood up and moved towards that crying kid and to my surprise hold him her candy floss and asked him to give a smile and not to trouble her mother anymore.

I couldn't believe on my eyes what I am seeing. When she was talking to the mother of the kid I looked above in the sky in attempt to make her father cherish this moment which we were waiting for years. I wish to be with him at that moment where he would have hugged me with proud smile on his face that his daughter is matured enough and learnt the art of letting go by. 

She came back and sat beside me and we looked into each other eyes and exchanged a known smile with each other. But, no one of us uttered any word. May be this could have spoiled the moment also that’s why we both understood the importance of blissful feeling within us and kept quiet.

She was happy after putting a smile on the face of that child and his mother and I was happy and proud after knowing that my Ananya has got some same taste as she had in her childhood but she has moved far away from that childhood and now she is a grown up and she is now a mature kid (for mother atleast).

We started walking back and I proudly asked her to hold my hand to make her realize that now she is ready to take care of me. And we again exchanged a known smile without uttering any word.