When I look back, I really don’t know whether I should feel happy or sad. I still remember a particular incident when I was small. I must be some seven years old. I had become very sick. My mom had taken me to several doctors but somehow I was not getting well.

Then my mom consulted a specialist. We were hard up for money. But my mom decided she would consult the very best for me. I used to go very less to school in those days. I was sick and found it difficult to sit for longer periods of times.

I remember going to school one day. My classmate Patrick had got a very nice pencil box from his parents on his birthday. He was showing it to everyone. I also touched it and felt happy. There was a cute mickey mouse picture made on the top. I just loved it. I knew I could never have it. The pencil box was costly.

I remember me and mom were in cab going for the appointment to the doctor. I had very high fever and was just telling mom about school that day. She was listening to me carefully. Then I simply told her about Patrick’s new pencil box. I also told her that I will get one when I will get old. I don’t know what happened. My mom asked the cab to stop at the nearby market.

I thought the doctor’s clinic had come. But it was a shop. My mom showed me many pencil boxes and finally we found a pencil box similar to Patrick’s. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was my own. It just made smile and smile so much.

Now when I think about that incident, I wonder what it must have cost my mother. I can’t ever say enough thanks to her making every sad moment so happy in my life. After that I became fine very soon. The doctor gave me nice medicines and I stopped feeling sick.

My mom is the best blessing that God has given to me. What should I say?

Thank you God

Let me take your leave now. Please take care. Bye.

The ‘common man’ went to visit his mother that day. They both sat together and drank coffee. They both remembered the old times. They both laughed and cried together. When the common man looked at his mother, he knew that world was beautiful.