It was not a usual weekend,
indeed today was not a regular Sunday as I was receiving continuous call from
my mother in the late evening hour. I called back to ask her, why she was making
such urgent calls, later I came to know that my Ammachi (Grandmother) was no more.
She took her last breath this morning after a long run of 83 years on Earth.
But I am pretty sure her soul will keep a count her age being invisible, as only
her physical frame had left to an almighty. My mother cannot speak, being an eldest
daughter of all her siblings, started from Trichy to Yercaud, I tried to comfort
her saying it was long expected and she attained the peace through a blessed
death without any pain. She was bedridden for long time, but when I met her
last month she was very thoughtful and vocally active. Recollecting her old
days and speaking about family tree and all congenital connections. She was talking about her early days of her wedding and how she made her own life possible for our family. All stories and best moments were documented by my father when he met her alive last time, as she was the only parent of my both mother and father's family. It was my aunt
who had taken all the pain for last 12 years and been an unimaginable support
both physically and mentally. If she was not there, may be this year would have
been her 12th remembrance year rather a funeral one. I should say
that this last 12 years was a bonus for my ammachi, as she had suffered multiple
cardiac attacks and the physicians had left hope and even said she won’t stand
for a day. So in all way she is blessed and who will get this privilege of
almost been to a funeral ground and come back even stronger. And so personally
for me it was long expected and practically, I should say my last cheerful good
bye to her rather grieving. If somebody asks me about my opinion on, be it spiritual
or miracle or magic, my response would be an immediate yes on referring to my ammachi’s
medical miraculous comeback stories. Even some time when my mother kept saying
that ammachi’s limbs have become so soft and started developing child’s hair,
seriously all I could have thought off and told my mother was, your mom was phenomenal
and ageing in reverse just like Brad Pitt mentioning “The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button” movie. Yes, I’ve made lot of fun about that, apparently she was getting
better after her every traumatic hospitalization. So here I say my final good
bye, remembering all the loving memoirs of my ammachi. We will miss you and may your soul Rest in
Peace.
