Lockdown Diary: ‘Mental Health of My Mother’

Blog : HrishtinaKariyapradhanTharu, 

A child was very hungry. Child was asking “give me more rice mother”. The sound was coming from the kitchen by the empty vessel of rice. Child was unknown about that sound. The empty vessel’s sound (Cutter Cutter) was ringing because of the rice has been finished, but child’s mother was adding the rice to her child. This is a short story that tells us how much our mother love and care about us. So, we should love our mother.

Mother is who cares and relationship with her child or children. Not only her child she had relationship with the household work even offices too. Every mother loves their child. Yes everyone have mother. That why we are here.

I have also a mother. Her name is MalatiKariyapradhanTharu. She is housewife and good in nature and loving personality. She works household work whole a day. Only sometime, she takes rest, watchtelevision, support to play games with us if she got leisure time.

At morning, she wakeup at 5:00am. We were not wakeup. Even I don’t know when she wakes up; actually I wake up at 8:00am so. She finished her breakfast preparation. She gives me and my little sistera cup of milk, biscuit or bread and she gives to father, uncle and she take herself a cup of black tea with lemon because of she does not like milk tea. The dishes are cleaned by me.

Then she used to swipe the stairs. She told me to clean the living room. She does not think about herself, she think about us not only us there is an old womannearby my society neighbor. She also thinks about her. If the old woman does not have vegetables or eatable something my mother gives to the old woman.

If old woman does not have anything, she always watches towards our house from roadside then my mother knows that she needs something.

She always thinks about the society too. At past, there were my grandparents but now they are not alive. And now no one is there in my village’s house. So she also thinks about the village too, how to manage the things in village.

Then sometime she told me to clean kitchen or sometime she clean the kitchen herself. She is busy in her own work. Then she got some time to spend with us. She likes to play with us; I and my sister also play with her.

Our snack prepared sometime bread and vegetable or pasta or noodle and many more. She calls me first to serve to father and uncle. We eat together as usual.

Sometime she sleeps if she is tired. She got very tired, she sometime come to my room to sleepor her own room. When the clock reaches at 5:30pm, she went to kitchen to prepare food for the dinner.

We know the covid19 is revel in many countries, among them Nepal is also affect by this virus. Not only Nepal in our city it has been revel. We see in many social Medias that people are dying because of this covid19. In our mind it has been settled that we should be 3 meter away from the society people, home pets and many more. Even many people are living away from their mom and dad or relatives because they are afraid being caught by covid19.

The government has also done lockdown. We also can’t transfer place to place. My mother and father always went village in a week but now it is lockdown so, they can’t go and she is worried about village. Yes, in lock down the markets, stores are closed, it hard to find the things as per our wish.

The usual problem of mothers, shethinks in their mind “what may I cook today for dinner”. We know it is lockdown time and it is hard to our mother to cook as per our wish. So, we should not argue that it is not good or else.

If she got tired, she also requests to father to prepare the dinner. He has also the office work from home but he sometime prepares dinner and lunch because he knows that my mother has the problem of her feet.

Ok!She makes our dinner. We together eat our dinner as usual. We go to watch TV. If my mother is watching television she got sleep. She does not have interest of watching the television. She has a problem of aches foot joint so, I help her. Then my little sister and mother went to sleep. But I and my father watch the television and visit news mobile and social media for few minutes more. Then we also went to sleep.

We and my mother sleep with a sweet dream. With a great smile my mother wake up and start her day.

Axis VidhyashamDhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City-5,