The final hug

Her mother's anger issues had scarred her as a child. But now, looking at her sobbing mother, Malini could finally see through her.

By Sowmya Srinivasan
Sowmya loves to tell stories. It is this love that has connected her with Soulveda where she hopes to add value through spirited and mindful narratives. Founder-member of Bangalore Storytelling Society, she uses storytelling and theatre techniques to develop creative thinking in children. She is deeply involved in collecting, curating and telling personal stories of reinvention. Her commitment to special education inspired her to study it formally and teach special children at one time. It is this empathy she brings into her writing as well. Sowmya is a doting mother of two.

18 January 2017

Malini stepped into the room with a glass of water and placed the rim of the glass to her mother’s lips. She swallowed slowly. Even taking a sip of water was agonising. Cancer had ravaged her mother and the struggle was painful to watch, yet Malini remained strangely unmoved.

“Can you forgive me?” asked her mother.

Malini was nonplussed. “Forgive what?” Malini could not help but ask this question, to give time to process what she was feeling. “Forgive me for my helplessness,” her mother said.

Malini’s innards were churning. Her mother’s anger issues had deeply scarred her as a child. There were so many memories of feeling helpless—cowering under the table as her mother threw things, and running out of the house to escape the abuse.

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