I am writing a letter about how a mother teaches honesty to her child with the Max Life Insurance i-genius #YoursHonestly activity in association with BlogAdda.Update: Thanks to the readers, the following post proved to be a winner in the contest.
Dearest
Mom,
As I write this
letter to you, I go through the lanes of reasons and excuses why I waited for a
contest to do so. Maybe because I have always been candid about my love and
respect for you, maybe all sons are like that.
When I
tell you that you are the best mother in the world, you always tell me that all
children find their mothers to be so. So I wouldn’t be calling you that in this
letter. But for me, you have also been the greatest teacher and I guess this
gives you an edge over others. Not only Mathematics, Science and Sanskrit, Economics;
not only History, Civics and Hindi, Mythology- You have taught me a lesson that
will best all of these at a certain point in my life – the lesson of being
honest but not too much of it.
I
remember how you asked us to come up with everything, good or bad that we would
have done, after you. You said it was a lesson you had learnt from your father and
one that you were now teaching us. You taught us that we will never get peace
by doing wrong to others by cheating them. But you remembered to teach us about
that fine line that separates the merits and perils of too much honesty. If I
go outright and speak up my mind, showering my half-baked opinions about things
and people- no matter how honest I am with doing that, I may end up hurting
others. It’s the golden rule of living in a social world. I once pointed it out
to you how you were different from others in stating your mind. While others go
like- “You are wrong to say that”, you take the care of adding- “ If you said
so, then you are wrong to say that”. It’s not a very big thing but that scope
of caution is a lesson in honesty that I don’t find my peers to possess and I
thank you for it.
You have
taught me that I might believe in the righteousness of certain things and may
choose to stand for what I believe to be true but the greater truth is that I
may be wrong. You have taught me that the greatest honesty in life is
admitting our own shortcomings. You have made me realize that honesty isn’t
only about not speaking lies, not cheating or stealing but about being a person
who is in peace with his conscience, in harmony with his morality.
Your son’s
character is a set of morals today. Just like a tree grows from a seed, his
character has grown out of seeds that you have sown and nurtured for 21 years
now. The tree, the morals, will keep on growing, changing and altering in shape
and size with time. But if it’s a mango seed you sow, you will reap mangoes
only. The same way, despite all changes that may come into my life, my
character will always bear fruits of the same seeds you have sown and your son
will always be a man that you wanted him to be.
Happy Mother’s
Day.
Yours
forever,
Your
son.
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