Karma is from a very
humble family where he had finished his schooling with great sufferings. His
only mother had worked hard to send him to school. Every single coin mother
earned had been spent on Karma’s education thinking that she doesn't want her
son to suffer like her. As same fate as she suffered. Mother worked in the field under any sort of
weather. She worked in heavy downpours, under scorching sun and she never gave
up working in strong wind because she thought she want to suffer for his only
son.
Though she wore cloths,
she always sent the best cloths for her son. She thought her son’s happiness
was more important than her own and she never failed her responsibility to
shower happiness on him, too. She loved her son very much. She liked to go and
meet her son at the school but she thought that her son’s friends might look
down her son as a son of poor widow and never went to meet.
After many years of
suffering, Karma got a decent job. It was a great relief for mother. She dreamed
of a comfortable life, she imagined a life away from her field to devote
herself to the god because she had committed lots of sin for the well-fare of
them.
However, the dream
never went as far the dreamed. Karma was completely changed physically and
mentally after getting a job. He even got married and he hardly sent money to
his mother. He never went village to meet his mother and he didn't bother his
mother who had suffered for his education. One day mother called him,
“Karma, I am your
mother.”
“Yes, what made you
call me?”
“I just wanted to
ask……” she hesitated to complete the sentence. After sometime she got strength
and resumed.
“I wanted to ask….if
you could come to village to meet me and if you don’t mind please…… send me
some amount.”
“Why I have to come to
meet you? Don’t you know that I am working here? Who will give money if I come
to meet you? I've sent the money last time and again you want?”
“I know you work there
but I want to meet you since it has been few years we haven’t met. The money
you have sent was two years ago and it’s almost finished. Now I cannot work in
the field like before, I have to buy everything from shops to feed me.”Mother
told him with her shivering soft voice.
“I’m sorry mother, you
don’t know how hard the life in Thimphu. I have to buy fancy car like my
friends and I have to look after my family. You old granny will never
understand.” He barked back to his mother.
The words hit her heart
like a razor sharp. She hung up the phone and sobbed like a child out of
despair.
One day Karma sat on a
couch and was reading a news paper, his phone rang and he got the news of his
mother’s demise.
