Srithi Baid

Abstract Drama Inspirational

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Srithi Baid

Abstract Drama Inspirational

Her Choice

Her Choice

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"You just shut up, you are talking a lot these days", my mother told me while hugging my crying sister. My sister and I had a small verbal cum even smaller physical fight a few minutes ago. This fight was predicted by me to happen sooner or later as it was going all good with my sister for the last fortnight which was relatively a longer period, I don't know why my mom didn't expect this. Siblings, fight and it is normal but mothers are mothers they still expect us to be saints always.

It so happens that whenever we fight irrespective of whose fault it is, my mother always takes my younger sisters' side in front of her because she is afraid that her sensitive younger daughter could harm herself in the heat of the moment and also because I am relatively "older" to my sister so I have the responsibility to understand and behave. I understand, there are immense faults in me too but why doesn't my sister minds her own business? Though I feel, my mother's reaction was understandable as our fight has never gone physical anytime; she says her heart was pounding heavily when this incident took place.

She says the only wish she has in life is that we all sisters live peacefully all our life with zero fighting which is highly impractical, considering we all are human beings and also the current lockdown situation is not helping us in any way. I never said we never fought before, I don't want to blame the lockdown completely but as we were busy with our work and life, the frequency was less as we used to interact less.

Now, the point here is, it pinched me a little that day that my mother always takes her side, what about me, am I not equally her daughter? Why me being an elder shield my sister's fault. My mother is a good human being and I really respect her. She has suffered a lot in her lifetime, mostly because she never raised her voice and I will not blame her for that as during that situation raising her voice would only have made the situation worse, in the sense, our family would not have been together otherwise and moreover, there was no one to support her back then. So, I respect the decision taken by her. It must have not been easy, I am sure as it is never easy to be silent. Moreover, it would have been difficult for her if she had raised as she was never taught to raise her voice, her family principles were different and my naive mom followed them religiously. Though she realizes the harm of it now, still, why is she expecting me to be silent in front of my sister? Why this partiality? My mother always encourages me to be a tigress, to conquer the world but only not in front of my sister, why?

I thought, after that fight, my mom would not talk to me which is usually the case as first of all she tolerates my lazy behaviour and a fight adding to it would agitate anybody but she continued to be normal. It is because I was helping my ailing father so I was glad that she had taken a mature decision then. And it is all back to normal between me and my mother. As far as my younger sister is concerned we will not talk to each other for a few days, in fact, would ignore each other as if the other is invisible and continue our living until one fine day something will make us talk again.

After several hours of reflection:

Should I feel bad about my mother taking my younger sister's side every time? Should I feel bad about her loving my sister more than me despite being a mother to both? Is it still pinching me that my mother took my sister's side? Nah, not anymore. Firstly, my younger sister deserves to get more love not because she is younger but they are like soulmates. She does more for her, she is the one who helped her to become independent, thought her to raise her voice in times of injustice etc though she equally makes my mom feel pathetic from her usual bickering and mood swings. And, secondly, because it is my mother's choice to do whatever she wants. It is HER CHOICE to love whomever she wants. Nobody can or should force her with that. I should not forget that along with being my mother she is also a human being, an individual who can have equal freedom as me to make her own choices. As a fellow human being, I should not forget this. Should not.


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