Maya’s note

Last Friday, I took off to be with Maya during her school holidays. Inspite of trying to be the best behaviour mom, I got angry on her when she refused to wear a pant saying she needs to put that for so many times. For a middle class family, she does have lots and lots of clothes. I buy for every small occasion here and we do the bulk buying in India trip as well. I asked her how many times do you think you have worn them and she replied about 4 times. I got very upset and started lecturing her as usual about how there are kids without food, water and how she should be grateful for what she has. Etc. She screamed back at me and I got upset and went for shower. After five minutes, she came in and asked me to tell her when I would be free to read her note. I didn’t know what it was and said casually to show it to me, she gave it to me and ran to her room. It was written, sorry for whatever I did wrong amma, will you love me still – to my best amma, from naughty maya. It took me back to my childhood years where I would always leave a note to my mom when I make her upset. I savoured that moment and wrote her back saying, It is not possible for me to stop loving you, I just want you to be happy with what you have etc. We exchanged a couple of notes back and forth and I saved it in my maya treasure box. I always thought of maya like her father, not very expressive and she has many of her behaviour similar to her dads’. But I was really honestly so happy and surprised to see that she does have some of my behaviour too. Whether it is like me or not, I really was happy about the fact that she understood it is wrong and knows how to apologise