I used to get so excited to see my mumbai cousins visiting us during summer speaking tamil like hindi!
my aunt who always spoke before she paused to think.....different!
Finally the day came when i got married as expected like everyone else!!!I prepared myself to live a normal life,!I had a baby girl within the couple of years of my marriage as expected......when my little was one and a half,she wore glasses!I cried she was different!......she did not start to talk until 4..I worried!she was different! she never made any friends but she was happy.....i badgered her! she was different! by 9 she was not like other girls.....she hated Justin Bieber ,
Hannah Montana....but loved Sponge bob and Amazing world of gumball!............I panicked!
she made friends with boys and listened to him talk about game boy for an hour...I was puzzled! she is 11 now,getting A`s at school,still struggling to make friends,always cheerful even if she has to eat alone sometimes,getting totally excited to store numbers in her phone,shooting out to her phone everytime the phone rings,still not giving up on making a friend!
I asked her, honey......why is it hard for you to make friends .......she said that's because i am DIFFERENT mom,I paused.........i actually got what i wanted!...... this beautiful,brave,young inspiration that is right in front of me!.......now I am fascinated with a new word......Acceptance!!!!!!!!
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