I was on the breakfast table with my cup of tea, and it was 8:45 in the morning. I had 15 minutes before I started work and it took me 15 minutes to get to work. Yet I was relaxed. I sipped my tea and made a face. It was not hot.I pushed it aside and my mother saw this. She asked me if I wanted her to reheat my tea for me and I said yes. She took pains to transfer it to a vessel and carefully reheat it ,strained it again into another cup(knowing well I dont like to use the same cup) and gave me to drink it. I had two more sips and I got up from the table, leaving half of the tea as it is making an excuse I was late for work.I despised reheated chai. I left the table without thinking how difficult i had been. When I saw my mom again that afternoon, she did not even complain about it or remembered it. How much forgiveness and love can a parent have, is amazing to think of. You can only realise your parents' sacrifices when you yourself are a parent. That was 10 years ago. Today when my son refuses his food,wants it remade, reheated, I boast about this to everyone how difficult life is for me and how well I think I am managing.....including my mom. And she still says, its alrite, thats life, it is only temporary........never does she say ..oh you were even worse and your son is only a baby and you were an adult and you still behaved like a kid. She is always the pillar of strength I can lean on., and I have only just started to enjoy the wonders of being a parent. We think of values to instill in our children and their individuality and what language they should speak, but what our parents taught us is more by example than advice, and we crib about petty issues with our parents without even realising how selfish as a teenager we have been when all we thought of was friends, friends and just friends.We  marched  into adulthood, and turned at the round about.....when we looked for them , mom and dad were always there.