Have you ever thought about how blessed are you with your immediate bonds?
You realize you and your limited circle love each other, but do you know them? Have you ever imagined how deep this love is?
Most recently, my loving mother came to Japan on Memorial Day. My husband and I went to the Airport to pick her up. I saw her with my naked eyes exactly after two years. Time flies. She was with two heavy suitcases.
The intimate bonds with the family are priceless. Hopeful eyes, cheerful cheeks, tear-filled eyes, endless talks, and heavy luggage tell all. We all really want to be together, but different future visions and lifestyles lead us to different fields. However, once we meet each other, we come out of the shell and share what we have in common. Along with the time, being a cool friend to your parents is awesome. It is always a new perspective to treat them. It is lovely when you don’t open with conventional mother-daughter talks. Along with the time, being a cool friend to your parents is awesome. It is always a new perspective to treat them.
Mother’s heavy luggage contained so much stuff, authentic Sri Lankan foods, and much more. The love language of my family and my inner circle is so amazing. I was pondering this very thing while tidying up the pieces of luggage. While sitting on the couch talking to my mother, I felt how grateful I am to have her in my life. She is doing things for the family even with her limited mobility in her legs. I am always wondering how she is capable in doing all these along with such physical difficulties. She says “Family matters” And the cute little pendant from my father to the latest addition to our family is so cute. Immediate bonds!!
Middle of so many responsibilities and duties both my sister and brother had sent me so many things. Having wonderful siblings is the greatest gift one can ever have in a life. We do not say that “I love you” to each other, but our love language is greater than that.
The book from my brother!!
And these love notes from one of my sister-like relative was so precious and amazing.
I can well remember one incident that was told by one of my friends, “I am worrying constantly about one particular incident in my life. I missed an opportunity with my mother in the later years of her life until she started to sip into dementia, then I understood how interactive I am with her“. I have heard a few such moving stories. The feeling is unimaginable and painful. “I wish I had this wisdom of appreciating her more while she is in conscious” she said. “Nothing soothes you like immediate bonds” she added.
However, there is a flip side of the coin: we all have no similar experience. One needs to understand the dynamics of various relationships within a family. Some families are large in numbers, yet it often feels like you barely have one at all. We all have different explanations for relationships. And sometimes you can’t travel back and mend the scratches, the only thing you can do is let it flow.
How do you feel?
