I have often asked myself the question, whether people from heaven watch the drama unraveling on earth? If so, they could never be happy! how can someone be happy looking at the trouble their wards are going through in this wicked world of ours? But heavens are supposed to be happy places, right?
Today, eight years ago, Amma passed away to glory! So was she watching over us, and of all people, 'me', during these times? For, her greatest grouse at the time of her moving on was her son hadn't settled down the way neither she nor the son wanted to be.
As I'm writing this, I'm sitting in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya and from here I'm onto Monrovia, Liberia. Work is taking me to the remotest corners of the earth and I'm grateful for the job I do now and have actually been doing in the last few years, for God had been incredibly kind, in giving me great opportunities to learn and to grow in the field I had chosen for myself. I'm truly happy and contented!
One fine evening in Munnar on a long walk, with hands on her shoulders, I told my mom, that I was not happy with what I was doing then. The corporate life I had chosen then, made no sense to me. The world said I am being foolish to resign. Everyone around said I'm risking my career. I know my dad didn't bother much about all that, for he was crazy himself. But it was my mother's statement that day that made me take the final decision. She said, "Do whatever keeps you happy"!
I don't think I understood the profundity of her statement as much as I do now! For if she hadn't made that statement, I don't know whether I would have dared the adventures life had taken me through.
Ma, if you are looking from up above the skies, do turn your glance to the African continent; There in a small guest room someone will be furiously typing at the computer at this random hour. That is your son. Your precious son is happy and satisfied and in fact, doing really well in life!
By the way ma, did you look at my son? He has stolen all your smile genes!
