Dreams Awaken [OS]✔

• Every Day Is My Mother's Day •

"Arey Shubha, what are you even thinking? Look, the milk is all over the stove now",Shubha's husband Arun switched off the stove while Shubha came back to reality from her thoughts.

"Oh god! I was thinking deeply. No worries, I'll do it. You are getting late for the office and you need to rush",she said, pushing him out of the kitchen.

"Alright, but we need to talk about this for sure in the ev-",Arun was about to complete his sentence and they heard a yell from Arun's mother asking Shubha for her morning chai.

"Arun, we'll see what to do. You go and freshen up and please wake up Esha as well she needs to get ready for school. The bus will be here within 45 minutes",Shubha said and sensed that it wasn't the moment to discuss things he  left from there.

Shubha's routine starts with serving chai to in-laws in the morning followed by a cup of coffee to her husband, getting Esha her 10 year old daughter ready, packing a lunch box for both her husband and daughter and sending them off to the office and school after serving them breakfast. Late morning which is already mid afternoon she has her breakfast after doing the dishes and stuff. Every alternative day she's gotta do the laundry and then serve lunch to the inlaws and arrange things in rooms which were left messy in the mornings. Keep the home neat and tidy, in the afternoon prepare lunch for her in-laws, take a nap till the time Esha comes or  folds the clothes and put them back into their respective places. Later go to pick up her daughter from the bus stop, help her complete her snacks and then put her to sleep for sometime and then make her complete the homework while making preparations for the dinner and have a dinner with her in laws, husband and daughter, do the dishes,prepare things for the next day and repeat.

Amidst all these she was looking for the Shubha who had high aspirations in her career to be a jewelry designer. She did her B. A in jewelry designing after which she got married. Marriage was no halt for her dreams was what she thought initially.

Arun never said no to her dreams directly but he was the kind of person who wanted his parents to be treated well without any issues. Shubha applied for post graduation in Jewelry designing but when she was in her first semester she got to know that she was pregnant and carrying a life within her who was excited to see the world. Nobody had to force Shubha to drop out of the course but she did it on her own.

Two years passed by after that and with every passing day she was searching for that Shubha who could mold herself into any possible role. Most of her time passed by in looking after Esha. Esha wasn't an obstacle but a blessing from the Lord was all Shubha thought.

She was the best mother in her own way, with Esha she had many new things to learn and experience in her life. Time flew within years and Esha was now in front of her as a 10 year old girl who is in her 5th grade.

Lately Shubha had been thinking of resuming her course in Jewelry designing yet again but didn't know how to discuss it with her husband and in-laws.

That evening, Arun came home early and both her in laws were watching some daily soap on the television. Esha was in her room taking a nap.