14 Years Without, Yet With You MAA
Dear Maa It has been fourteen years today since you left us. Fourteen years, yet it still feels like yesterday that I last heard your voice, saw your gentle smile, felt your soft hands, and leaned into your warmth. Time has moved on, but your memories have not faded even a little. They live in every corner of our hearts, as alive and as comforting as ever. So much has changed, Maa. Life looks different now, and we have all grown; Me, Neetu, Abba & Mahi. We often talk about how you would have felt seeing us today, how much you would have smiled at the way we have all turned out. You would have been proud, I know it, the way I try to carry a part of you in everything I do. But even with all this growth, the truth is that your absence still feels like an unhealed wound. Some days are lighter, some days are harder, but no day ever feels completely whole without you. There are moments when I still look for you, in the smell of your favourite dish, in the rustle of your saree that ...