After a long day, when the sun set and everyone in the family had completed their chores, the kids were resting, and the parents were done with their chores, the house was silent. Her husband came here and wanted to share a picture he had taken the other day. He had a warm smile on his face, so she knew it was going to be something special.
We never realize how special a moment is until it passes away, and later, we look at it with teary eyes, hoping it will last a bit longer. There it was, a picture of her and her child, Kane. They were not dressed up fancy. It was a raw, completely unfiltered picture; however, what made her realize it was so special. Kane was standing next to her mother while she straightened up her hair, and with her toy straightener, Kane was trying to copy everything Mama was doing, standing in the bathroom. The moment she saw the picture, she burst into laughter, but when she looked at it for a bit longer, she had teary eyes and a wide smile.
The picture had nothing fabricated. The fact that the bathroom wasn’t clean and they were dressed up in their teens added beauty to the picture. Children are like tiny shadows of their parents, trying to learn whatever their parents do so they can become like them. It is a beautiful part of their parents’ world, and the photo her husband took demonstrated it. Although she knew that she wouldn’t upload such a raw picture anywhere on her social media handles because it is all about the fancy life everyone is living, what the picture had was the real beauty of life. A picture she knew she would cherish forever.
As mothers, women tend to capture memories of their children, selflessly do everything they can for their families, and, in the process, forget themselves. Doing all this, they are not often seen in family pictures and core memories, although their presence is always there.
So this beautiful moment is a message for the dads to take more pictures! Capture moments you can later cherish with your partner when the kids grow up, and you two are sitting on the balcony looking back at old memories. Core memories are in the moments she is giving it all, days on which the room isn’t as clean as usual, and how your little family is on the bed playing and giggling.
Ordinary moments make up life. Not only do parents want to look back at them, but children also want to be looked at.
