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I still fondly remember, how she would prepare Dosas or Upma for us, when mom was out of station.
I would often go to her room after school and play with her. For some reason, if I would cry, she would blame bhai. Not that she didn’t like bhai, but rather out of concern for the youngest one in house.

Life is cyclical.

We have seen different phases of life through her. She was generally a strong willed and assertive woman. She loved travelling with us and dad would try his best to take her along. She relished good food and fruits. She enjoyed the choco-bars that bhai would lovingly bring for her.

Later, she developed back pain and her movement was kind of restricted. Only to rise as a phoenix. She somehow lost weight and again became pretty mobile. She could go to the terrace, 2 floors above using stairs at the age of 92 years. Commendable, ha.

She was very particular about her clothes, room and items. However, later it became the opposite. She paid no heed to the clothes she wore. Sometimes, I would tease her for not keeping herself clean or not going to the bathroom to attend to nature’s calls, only to realize that it was very foolish of me. Why to blame her? Will I want others to mock me, when I get old ?

She instilled the quality of patience in us. I would see mom taking good care of her patiently and tell myself, when mom is so patient with her, can’t I be so, as well.

As dad says, no young ever thinks that he’ll become old one day.

One day, she suddenly fell down on floor. The two second-gen daughters-in-law, rushed to assist her. The kids had no idea what happened to her. There was commotion. Anyway, somehow, that day she got back to her feet and things were as usual.

But not this time. The time had come to bid her adieu forever. May her soul rest in peace.
I know she will shower her blessings on us, wherever she is.

My lovely Nanamma.

On 16.09.2016, Smt. T. Sundaramma attained heavenly abode.

Notes to myself:

1.       Live life the healthy way

2.       Cultivate hobbies that can last life-long. Grandma didn’t quite have any hobbies 

3.       Try to be useful to people around you. The moment you are perceived as not “useful”, people may not care much about you.

4.       Lucky to have grown up with at least a grandparent around. So much to see and learn.

5.       Life is sum total of these experiences.

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