Haven’t we all felt the feeling of being in love? Some of us
have been fickle enough to think that they’ve felt the emotion over and over
again. While, some of us have felt it only once, deeply and unrequitedly. Some
of us have been lucky to have felt it and received it in return. But all
through being in the emotion, haven’t we all questioned what exactly is love at
some point of time or the other? Despite the question, how many of us have
really been able to fathom what exactly is love? Very few of us, I guess. But I
believe it’s plain and simple to see. Every time you land up asking yourself, “What
is love?”, look at your mother or for that matter, look at yourself if you are
a mother!
Mother’s throughout all living species, especially humans, easily
set the best examples of lovers. How they, without any judgements and
expectations, nurture, care and nourish!
Right from the time a woman becomes aware of her motherhood,
she takes to making sacrifices, be it giving up on her caffeine intake or quitting
a bad habit, like smoking or drinking. She tries to do her best in trying to
understand what the little person coming into her life is going to be like; through
reading up books, taking advise from doctors, family and friends or even talking
to complete strangers. She gets to making arrangements to welcome the little
stranger to the best of her knowledge and abilities; keeping herself healthy to
be able to nourish the new born and setting up things around the house to make
the tiny newcomer comfortable. It’s love even before first sight! And finally,
when she holds her baby for the first time, no matter how intense a labour she might
have been through, all of her exhaustion and pain disappears. All she feels is extreme
euphoria and deep love. Thus, begins her journey of motherhood, the journey of
pure and pious, forever love!
All throughout her life as a mother, all she expects is for
her child to be happy. In their happiness lies hers. She goes to lengths to see
a smile on her child’s face. But at the same time, her love is also correcting and
nurturing. She sometimes, nags and sometimes punishes, but even at the core of
her nagging and punishing, lies love, for she only wants her child to learn to
fend and care for themselves for she shall not remain in their lives to do that
forever. As her little one grows, her struggles and concerns only increase but
she continues to love and nurture unwaveringly. Many a times, she suffers
disappointments from her child but she continues loving nonetheless. She always
forgives and never judges.
Never will you ever hear of a mother giving up on her child for
having fallen out of love with them, because her love for her child is undying!
Such is love in its purest of forms. But, of course, it’s impossible to love another
so as a mother does. However, for those looking for inspiration on how to love
and for those questioning what love is, a mother’s love is the best example for
it is love at its pinnacle and it is love in all its glory!
