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As you sow, so shall you reap
Contributed by Haya Naveen
“Mom! Are you coming today for my annual day function, I got the first prize for my science project,” Kerzner said.
“No, darling I can’t, I’ve to go for a manicure, sorry I can’t sweetie.”
On hearing this, the boy looked at his mom with tear-filled eyes but the mother didn’t pay any attention towards the sorrowful look on her child’s face and drove to the parlour with Kerzner’s new father.
“Mom! Everybody was present at college on graduation day today to celebrate their children’s success and to make them feel important but I stood alone in the crowd with no one to make me feel privileged.”
Kerzner didn’t get his mother’s attention throughout his life; his step dad treated him really badly. For his own dad Kerzner was not even born.
That very day Kerzner decided that he’ll never let his children face the time which he had to go through in his childhood. His love for his parents had faded. He could not even remember a blurred image of a “happy family life.”
Today Kerzner is 42, happily married, has three children, is well established and holds a great status in society.
“Sir! The bouquets and gifts have been couriered to your mother,” said his secretary.
“Oh yes! It’s Mother’s Day today, thanks Carlton,” said Kerzner.
Every year on Mother’s Day Kerzner sends gifts and cards to his 72-year-old mom. His mother no lives alone in Florida after Kerzner’s step father’s death, but doesn’t have the time to meet her due to his busy schedule.
Kerzner’s mom is in no sense obliged by the gifts and bouquets today, what she really desires for is Kerzner’s love and care but “alas” she wishes for what she cannot get. She repents the days gone by, feels the pain of not being a good mother and losing her most treasured belonging “her son, Kerzner.”
It’s been 18 years that she has not seen him. She cries and cries and blames herself for sowing seeds in unfavourable conditions and not providing the basic necessities of love and care to the new plant and what she reaps now is a plant which is of no use to her.
The delivery man knocks at the door, but no one replies, he knocks and calls repeatedly, but when no one replies, he leaves the flowers and gifts there at the door, not knowing that these gifts are of no use now...
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