Solitary speaker

The birth of a baby girl gave her life a new direction. Born as beautiful as the most beautiful fairy man’s imagination might have led him to believe, she became the soul of her life. She named her child Amê meaning soul in French. Even though she took care of her duties as a wife and daughter-in-law of the house, she lived each moment of her day for her daughter.

As a toddler Amê gave delight to anyone watching her. She would enthrall and enrapture her audience, specifically her mother by her antics. When she grew up to be able to go to school, after initial hitches her teachers doted on her and praised her parents at every PTA meeting for her great upbringing. She was awarded the best student of the school every year without exception. Her college years were as fantastic, bright as she was it had to be.

And all the time when Amê was succeeding, her mother was standing sturdy behind her. She learnt all the lessons of her daughter till her college before her daughter so that she could help Amê learn them. She took driving lessons so as to be able to commute her daughter from home to school, to dance classes where she sat watching her daughter all the time and to anywhere else her daughter wished to go. She also started interacting with all her daughter’s teachers and friends and their parents and made many new friends herself. For days together she would not need tears to give her company, though she would dissolve into them once each week due to some reason or other and she would keep that as a secret protected especially from her daughter. And surprise of surprises, she started swimming at the advanced age of 42 when Amê wished to learn it herself. She had changed so much that her parents took delight watching her along with their granddaughter.

But these days were destined to change too…..