True Heir

Meenakshi is an ideal daughter. She is a wonderful mother, an amazing better half, and a friendly person with a pretty smile.

She always loved her mother and gave her gifts on every Mother's Day. She thought that her life was picture perfect.

One day, she asked her mother if she could stay with her for a few days as she had to take a rest due to her illness. Her mother said no to her as she was busy with her own responsibilities of taking care of her son's family. Her mother told her that, she should ask her mother-in-law as she is a part of their responsibility.

Meenakshi asked her mother-in-law for some help, but she told her that she was busy with her social circle and she felt that after a son's marriage, she was free from all the responsibilities.

When her mother became weak in her old age, she came to stay with her. Her mother-in-law also came to stay with her for her recovery.

Meenakshi used to feel that why people never give the right amount of respect to their daughters and daughters-in-law.

They are always the first ones to give loving care to anyone who is not well. She has to keep in touch with her own family so that they do not feel as if she has forgotten them.

After marriage, a woman takes care of all the members of her new family and cooks for them with so much love, yet she is always treated like an unpaid servant or an outsider.

Meenakshi often wondered, why a woman is not called a true heir of her maiden family or her new family.

She often asked this question, that when a woman is the one who gives her time to make life fulfilling and beautiful then why she is treated like an unwanted weed in the garden of a family.

If a woman stops taking care of her loved ones, stops cooking for the family, stops taking care of her husband and children, then everyone will accuse her of running away from her responsibilities. So, when she does everything with a loving smile on her face, then why can't this whole society call her the true heir of her family.