Friday, September 28, 2007

My Paaatiee

She is the nicest lady i've ever met, the most caring person, totally pure - have never heard her say anything bad against anyone , she was almost like a kid - very innocent ( managed to take her innocence to the grave, quite an achievement considering the world she was in ) , she gave the best of education to her 6 kids ( all this despite being an ordinary worker in a textile mill ), sweated it out all her life ( if i was awake, i have never seen her sleeping after 5 am and she was always wide awake till 10 pm ) , went out of her way to feed a hungry soul , Never said NO when asked for any help, had amazing energy all her life (during her active days - she worked from morning 6 am to 4 pm and held the fort steady at home till 10 pm and she also walked from Coimbatore to Palani ( 150 km ) every year), brought up each of her grand kids in the best possible way, told us the stories - ( I looked forward to her stories of "those days" during bed time, whenever she stayed with us ) and she always had a beautiful smile on her face - My Paaaatieee, she was the bestest...

May her soul rest in peace.

2 comments:

Nithya said...

Time spent with grandparents r the special part of everyones life esp during the childhood days. I wonder if the nxt generation wud b "blessed" to have grandparents arnd them as we did. I pray that ur pattis' soul rests in peace and hope we come across many more such selfless people.Very thoughtful of u to write a post on ur patti! Cheers!

Karthikeyan (KK) said...

@ Nithya - Yep, totally. Granny brought me up - i lived with her in the inital 6-7 years and for the next 3-4 years, i would run to her house on all weekends and annual holidays! She was very special ! Amazing lady.