Sad but we ought to face it.

"Mama, can you put off skype now?" she pleaded. My heart tweaked a bit with a surging pain,yet I had to ask,"why?" "I want to play some online games now,"replied my daughter nonchalantly. Felt like a quiver full of arrows struck my heart at the same time. But I saw an intense need of games more than their mom who missed them like a lunatic. So I obliged, more out of understanding her need than my sadness.

After I logged out of skype I realised I have not been any different from my daughter. I never missed my own mom more than my friends and I never felt anything wrong with it.After meeting my husband and having two daughters, my parents were shoved far back in the corners of my life's priority.

Today I put my daughters above all else, eeven above my own life but sadly for now her online games counts more than my presence in skype. This is momentary, she will ask for me when she needs a new dress for her doll or maybe new games. But as she grows up her friends will occupy the place in her heart while I will be called into that space only if there is any serious adult intervention needed.

Then like any grown up girl, my li'l girl will meet the man of her dreams and I'll find no vacant corner to put up my bundled heart in her heart. With gray hair and wrinkled dreams, I shall sing of the olden days when I was young and feel all the love I felt for my li'l ones while they will snuggle in the warmth of their lives set in a different setting from mine.

Alas!that's the sad tale every mother lives.