Our day of love!!

I remember watching an advert which showed this couple who is newly married and is travelling to a new place. They wait for the metro to arrive and when it does, a hoard of people come flocking out of it and both of them get separated. The lady starts searching for her husband in the crowd and doesn't on board the train. When the crowd disperses.. finally they see other with an emotion of care, with a feeling of fear to lose their special one. And then they smile at each other realizing that they have discovered their day of love. An advert for a jewellery brand. How much I smiled at the advert, resonating with it's feelings!! The idiot box teaches a lot sometimes. Today morning, my mother had to visit a lab for an ear test for which she asked me to accompany her. As the lab was en-route my office, I agreed to accompany her till her test was done and drop her back to the station. We were waiting for the cashier to prepare the final bill when my mother looked at me and said "Thank-you!!" I asked her the reason and gave an obvious look that she didn't need to say a Thank you at all. After all she's my mother. She giggled and said that she becomes afraid of travelling distances sometimes because of her age. I realized, many elderly women and men must be having this similar fear of travelling alone because of their age as they feel they might become unconscious or might trip and get injured due to imbalance. I told my Mum that she need not fear since she is a strong woman and knows Mumbai quiet well because of her working, past so many years. She unarguably replied yes, to respect my encouraging words but I know her better and could understand that this fear will take some time to fade away. We left from the lab and she asked me to proceed further since I was running late for my office. I said it's OK even if I reach a bit late as I had already intimated about it. We reached the station and we had to part ways, she was heading towards CST and I was heading towards transharbour. I hugged her tight and planted a kiss on her cheeks in midst of the busiest junction and said a Good Bye. She smiled, knowing that her cheek now had my lipstick stain and she said a Good Bye too. I walked a few steps towards the bridge and she walked a few steps towards her platform, I looked back at her to check on her whether she will be okay and amidst the crowd I saw her looking back at me to check on me whether I was okay. We smiled at each other.. smiled at the abundant love we had for each other..for the care we had for each other. That moment I realized something..how much we loved each other every single day.. in our fights.. in our disputes.. in our late night conversations.. in her immeasurable advises.. in the countless moments.. and this was one of them.. how afraid I was to lose her even from my sight... We stood there smiling at each other, acknowledging the emotion, of what we meant for each other. I escorted her till the Ladies compartment.. watched her from the window till she took a seat then wished her a good bye again and headed towards the bridge rememorating the bond between a daughter and mother...so beautiful!!