Your mom used to read books, mostly novels. She is no longer an active reader. She is getting older, and she finds it hard to read books. Knowing your mom’s interest in novels, you started reading out loud from your book collection. She sits patiently and listens with so much enthusiasm.
You usually pick sentimental and comedy movies for your mom and you watch it with her. She never likes the political or science movies. She doesn’t follow the thriller or mystery movies - that is because she won’t pay full attention to it, even a gate opening sound in a movie feels like your home gate sound to her.
Your mom used to cook potato fry (with pepper), eggplant fry and green peas curry so regularly. These were her favourites in those days. She rarely makes these items in recent times, you think it could partially because you started avoiding these for some reason. You requested her to cook them once in a week so that she could enjoy her favourite foods again.
There are moms who listen to your read out loud because she realises that you wanted to do that for her. There are moms who laugh while watching a comedy scene without even understanding it because she knows her laugh would make you happy. There are moms who never liked the potato fry with pepper but cooked and ate it for a long time just because you liked it.
When you were a kid, she got all the time in the world to watch you and learn your likes and dislikes. She could easily adjust her interests and acts in a way that made you very happy. It was nearly impossible for you to realise her adjustments, even after several decades of life with her. Now you wanted to do something for her. You wanted to adjust yourself to do things for her. She, even at this old age, is lightening fast and can camouflage herself into what you think she is. She can do that because it is a mom thing.
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