Living in Ignorance

Posted on by Reena Saxena

I met your mother yesterday at the mall. She was looking at ornate jewellery for her prospective daughter-in-law.

I watched the gleam in her eyes with awe, which induced a strange, sad feeling.

I am haunted by how much our mothers do not know. We can blame them for not building a congenial atmosphere for sharing or blame ourselves for concealing facts that might hurt them.

I hear my mother listening to neighbourhood gossip, knitting needles in her busy hands and a quiet smile lighting up her face. I know what she thinks. She is blessed to have a daughter like me.

I haven’t told her about the scholarship that will take me abroad and that I have no intention of marrying the man she chose for me.

She lives in a dream, just like your mother, who doesn’t know her son is gay.

Prosery

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  4. Denial is a powerful force that I have been blessed to live in and around. I like to think that I will continue to see my children’s lives from an objective standpoint, rather than one subjective to my desired reality.

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