A half cup sugarless milk!

It was a small hut where she and her sons lived. She was a thin, tall, not well educated, dark and poor pale woman who was washed away by the life's storm and was left alone with those two sons and that hut. Earning every single bread was really hard for her but she struggled for that, inspite of her severe asthma complaint. The storms that blew in her life along with her ill-health made her little heart very weak and her mind to loose its balance. So everyone around her including her sons thought that she was not a mentally sound person and yes, she couldn't do all the works as a normal sound female can do. Many used to avoid or come near to her because of the way she acts or reacts and the way she keeps on murmuring something.

Once she was visited by her loving youngest brother along with his wife and kids, who stayed very far away from her place. She welcomed them happily but due to asthma, there was a considerable pause between every single word she spoke. She took them inside the hut and was worried that her hut wasn't able to accommodate them. She lovingly enquired about every one and even advised his wife to take care of her health. She wanted to treat her guests well but there was nothing left in that hut and she was deeply worried that she was unable to offer anything to eat. Her brother and his family felt really sorry about her condition.

She suddenly called his kids and took them inside a room, which has got few utensils - considered to be the kitchen in that hut. She opened a vessel which contained little milk and with her feeble shivering hands, she poured that out into a small cup. The cup was half filled up and she asked the first kid to have a little, then to give the rest to the other kid. She even said to them not to take that cup outside and to drink it standing in the kitchen itself as she has nothing to offer to their parents. The kids had that sugarless milk happily seeing their Aunt’s love and off course, anything mixed with love tastes much sweeter.

Unlike the hut she stayed, her heart was very much spacious, filled with enough love than a so called mentally sound, educated, wise, fair and healthy person. She is no more now but can we ever dare to say that she was not mentally sound or stable?