Forgotten love..
By vanny
@vandana7 (98827)
India
January 26, 2013 10:48pm CST
So when you hold the baby ...your heart is only filled with love and caring..you are not really jealous about how good the child looks, how good the child wears, all you can feel is love, love, love...
Even cleaning up the poo is not objectionable...right? Nor the smell of the curdled milk that the baby might accidentally throw up.
But after all that...we forget the person who did that much of service to us. We dont even remember them as we grow up. They are out of our memories by the time we touch 6 or 7. I was thinking of the love that my maid is bestowing on my neighbor's child. And I am sorry that she is referred to as aayah by my learned politician neighbor.
It must pinch when the child no longer needs you..Kabuliwalah style..
I am locking my heart today...I too have been playing a lot with that kid. If he goes to some other city, like a few others have done, it will hurt..
I also take this opportunity to thank all those who have carried me around, hugged me, bathed me, cleaned me, and only felt love for me, and yet I have forgotten you all...trust me, it was not deliberate, just nature...
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6 responses
@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
27 Jan 13
aww now I am more grateful to my mother and my sisters. Yes they were the ones who took care of me. Everyone took care of me because I am the youngest. We are 10 children... Now, I would get to them to thank them. Thanks for the reminder and yes all those words hit my heart. Now I miss them.
@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
27 Jan 13
yes i know who they were. they are still with me and still take care of me whenever I am down they support me. They are my sisters and my brother. My parents both passed away.
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@tassantos7 (70)
• Philippines
28 Jan 13
Indeed it is very well forgotten, but I don't think it is forever erased. When we forget, we just don't realized that something we forgot was just beside us all along. Remembering restores the bond as if nothing had changed. I had a part in raising a little girl before, and even though we haven't met for such a long time when we meet she smiles and runs to me like she did when she was younger.
But it is a fact that many do remember that love given to them...but they don't give it much value as they should.
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
27 Jan 13
Thanks for the discussion :)
Hmm I won't mind being forgotten because I can not stand all those things you mentioned...
It surely hurts when you are needed no more, but locking yourself out for that reason... I do exactly that so it must not be right! 
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jan 13
So one not right meets another..
I knew one...Shashank...I was nuts about him..my neighbors kid. And then you know about my little sister...though I didnt see her when she was a baby. But some soft feelings develop...and when those people move out of your life...it doesnt feel nice. :(2 people like this
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
27 Jan 13
Dear Vandy, from the moment my son was born, I knew my HEART would forever "walk outside my body!"
And, there have been many other little tykes that have stolen a "piece of me," and it is GOOD, as we all know, "it takes a community of love to raise a child!" TAKE great heart in knowing you are part of this little tyke's formative years..and gloat later for your wonderful input!
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
27 Jan 13
I also have somehow forgotten that kind of love that my nanny gave me. She is still living with my parents and I think she will be there until her final days. She never got married.
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@vandana7 (98827)
• India
27 Jan 13
It is one thing to get such love from family because we belong, and it is another thing if we get such love from those who were not family. I would call up that nanny and just tell her thank you, just to make her feel, her love is reciprocated.
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@Admin1993 (628)
• India
27 Jan 13
Wow intersting discussion.Hi Aunty thanks for sharing this.
As you said we forget all those who loved and cared us in our offspring days..there might had someone who cares me a lot but i only know two person namely my dad and mom...well we should love them very much now as the had loved and cared us.
Now this discussions reminds me of my childhood days who cares and love me.
I realized once again now i should love them as they do..
Happy mylottings.
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