" Mum, I am leaving, Good Bye!"
Tej left his room, leaving his mum behind. Generally, he would not say this any other day but something had compelled him to wish his mom, maybe, for one last time.
As he walked through the dusty roads in his street, all the wonderful moments that he had with his mum played in his mind, like a flashback. Tej wondered why this happened as his mother was placed at a good position in the list of his haters. He didn't know what was going on.
A pain of separation had filled his heart. The constant fear of not being able to see his mother had pushed him into deep thinking.
Tej's dad had passed away when he was 5. He had seen his mother struggle as a single parent although she was advised to marry her brother in law. She never wanted to share the love for her husband with some other man, but alas, Tej never understood.
His mum used to try hard to fulfil his needs, but could never give him what he wanted. She loved seeing him grow but understood that the distance between tej and her was growing too.
And as she walked through the same dusty roads at her times to reach her place and start working, one constant thought used to encourage her," Tej would understand, someday".
Years had passed and as usual, Tej's mum was ill. All these years, hatred had developed in his heart for his mother as he thought, she was the reason why he was deprived of a dad's love.
But that day, his mentality changed.
He had seen his colleague's wife, who didnt care of the existence of her daughter, and was enjoying the company of her second husband, his colleague.
Tej understood it all, that day.
But it was too late before he could give what his mother had wanted for years, a son's love.
As he strode through the dusty roads engrossed in all his messy thoughts, he understood he was hit by something heavy, and in a moment, was dismayed on not being able to replay those memories. The tape seemed to be on a fast forward mode and in a moment realised , those were his last breaths.
In a moment did he realise, it was too late.
And in his last moments, the only thing he could think of was:
Am I paying for my sins? Or is there more tolerance written in my Mom's fate?
His mom's heart and soul broke like a mirror, all shattered at once, thinking,
"It's too late to get anything".
People say, it's never too late. Let me ask you, isn't it too late for Tej's mum to get what she wanted ?
Never say it's never too late. A moment might delay everything in your life.
