Prachi had come from office just a short while ago. Having done a lot of work at office, she was hell tired. Still, she had some energy left to play with her 2 years old son. It had been only 15 minutes of heavenly happiness of playing with her child when she looked at the clock. ‘Oh, it’s already 7 pm’, exclaimed Prachi and ran towards the kitchen quickly.
‘Naman, the chapatis are ready, please serve dinner to Mummyji Papaji’, Prachi called her husband from the kitchen. ‘Coming Prachi’, Naman replied. This is how Naman and Prachi used to manage all the household chores together every day. Although Naman was not like this always, but Prachi did not even need it at first. She was capable of managing both her job and home well without any help. But after her son’s arrival, she started to need help and then she explained to Naman. Naman was a mature and logical man, so understood at once.
Within minutes, Naman was serving dinner to his mother and father. ‘Long live dear Son’, Naman’s mother said happily, ‘May God give everyone a son and husband like you, who takes this much care of his parents and helps his wife too, well done’.
‘Arey maa, how is it taking care of you and helping Prachi? I am just serving the food. And if someone deserves the praise, it’s Prachi, not me. I have only brought this food from the kitchen to you, but it is her who has been standing at 50°C in the kitchen for an hour and cooking for all of us, ‘Naman said. ‘So what beta, we are her parents-in-law, this is her duty’, said Naman’s father. ‘You are right papa. That’s her duty, but I wonder why it is not my duty too? Her cooking is duty, and if I just serve, it is a favor? Why so? Is it only because I’m a man and she is a woman? But tell me one thing, does she not work in office as much as I do? Does she get less tired than me? Along with work and home, she also takes care of the child. So why is her hard work a duty, and my only serving the food a favor to you and her? Why is it her duty to serve you, why not mine? You guys have given birth to me, not her. You had several sleepless nights for me, not for her. With your sweat and blood, you have raised me, not her. Killing your own, you have fulfilled my desires, not hers. You have done everything for me, but not for her. Then how you both became her responsibility and not mine? And those two people who have done all this for her, her parents, they are also old like you, yet Prachi has left them alone and has come here, cooking for us, taking care of our house, and doing everything.… for us, not for her parents. How contented I feel when I serve food to both of you, how happy I feel when I see you both eating together. Prachi has sacrificed this heavenly feeling, this happiness for us, and we tag her sacrifices with the name of duty, is it right? Her duty is not towards my parents, but towards her parents. The same way, you are my responsibility, not hers. I don’t mean to say that she is doing us any favor. No, she is just doing this out of love, the love that she has for me, and for you both. But we should also understand that the parents are the responsibility of the son, not the daughter-in-law. Daughter-in-law willingly shares this responsibility because she loves her husband. And maa, it’s not me who is helping her, it’s her who is helping me in fulfilling my responsibilities towards my parents. You are my responsibility, not hers. This is not her duty, this is her love, for which we should at least be thankful, if not grateful.’
Prachi was still standing in the kitchen finishing her work and was just smiling with gratitude towards her dear husband.
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