Feeling wanted!

This morning, mom-in-law said something very sweet to me.

It's our first wedding anniversary in a few days time.

So aunty said that she gave away her 'bangaram' and brought home another 'bangaram' on our wedding day.

Bangaram is something very precious, gold...

I felt very touched, being told that am a piece of gold, just like her son is the gold of her life.

It made me smile throughout the day... My husband was asking me why I was smiling as we were in the subway trains... It's because I felt very wanted, I felt precious, the feeling was infectious, refusing to die down...

I wish all human beings peace and dignity, I pray to God to make people feel wanted, loved, respected, cherished.

Especially being a woman, I can say, material gifts given don't touch our hearts as much as some such small sincere statements made from heart.

Nobody's ever given me a gift that made me think & smile the whole day, as did this sweet little sentence.

Appreciation goes a long way, and brings so much warmth into life. It awakened some strength from within me, made me feel closer to God, it was conveyed by a human, but feels like God's communicated with me!

I felt especially touched since the words came from my mother-in-law. From a parent to a child, love is assumed to exist even if never formally vocalized. But from my in-laws, it feels very good when such thoughts are shared and I am told I am so loved as though I were not a daughter-in-law but a daughter.

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)