“I understand what you are trying to say. Whatever you could have done, you must have done by now.”
“No, Ma. Now, he will do whatever he feels like doing. If you think you can control him, I don’t think that will happen.”
“Yes, it’s possible that he may fall in bad habit. You can’t do anything about it but if he hasn’t by now, he’ll probably be okay.”
“Whatever kind of work he wants to? Work is work. Let him do anything.
“So he says that he will earn his own money. By doing what?”
“Why should we care? Oh, that’s what he said.”
“Now, you can’t do anything.”
“No don’t get angry at him. He may as well insult you and tell me what you will do then.”
“Ma, he has changed. He has grown into this person, you think you know but you actually don’t know. I guess he thinks that whatever his parents and close relatives are telling him is not for his benefits. He must have this opinion that we all have ulterior motives. Yes! Ulterior motives to see him do something in his life.”
“Pain is inevitable: either he takes now or later in life. He has to go through. There is no other way. “
“Ma, my stop is coming. I can’t do anything. He is not picking up my phone.”
“Wait for a ten days. I need to talk to him in person.”
“I will try, Ma. But as I told you calling will not help. Hang on, Ma, I will call you in a minute.”
The guy behind me the bus, tells her mother to wait. His words choice and his restrained delivery make me believe he is very mature guy.
I’m not like him.
“First, you guys loved him and gave him whatever he had asked. Whenever he got angry, you soothed him. Now, you can’t stand his caustic remarks. Tell me what can I do, Ma.”
