For Grandmom :)

Dear Amma,
When you talk, the way you put all your love into your words and still make the sentence sound normal and the astounding capacity you have for love, makes me want to worship you. For I know now how much pain is associated with love and your love amma, seems to keep coming on and on seamlessly. And it’s surprising how you don’t seem to expect anything back. I am sure to have earned a lot of good karma to have someone like you in my life; literally. It seems like you pledged your life for all of us and the fact that we are on the receiving end of your love is enough to keep you content, even if it means having zilch expectations of reciprocation from us. In fact it embarrasses you if we want to do something to express our love, which is an overflowing pot too. Perhaps our ways of expressing are too childish for you. I am grateful to you amma, for nurturing us with all the love you have given us without a trace of any expectation of reciprocation from us and for teaching us how to love so openly and so heartily with no fear of the pain that love can bring. And also for passing that capacity to love through the genes I have inherited from you.  I cannot figure out any way of expressing the immense love we all have for you. Perhaps the realisation is in itself a manifestation of my love for you, because usually when love is so much in excess, it goes unnoticed. I have no reason to feel unloved at all because all I have to do is think of you and the love you have boundlessly given and taught all of us and I will never feel unloved. They say love never dies. I think I’m beginning to know now why. Someone who will have received so much love from you will have become a reservoir of love and will know how to pass it on all the time. That’s why, no matter how far I am from you, I know your love will stay with me. 