The first time they are out of sight, (am not counting the ten odd hours where you yourself are out of sight, due to your job compulsions) for long continuous hours must be when they first go to play school.
Once it's proper school, you get to see them for regular hours only on weekends, which is again taken up by homework and ever present, and never complete studies.
Then begins those night outs, those over night picnics , those weekend treks, and they keep disappearing for longer and longer hours.
And so time keeps flying.
Until one day they go far far away for further studies. And now you measure the 'distance time' not by weekends or weeks, but by a year or two.
And finally, when they find jobs in cities other than the ones they were born in!.
You automatically assume, it's still temporary like all the other times! ( Unlike daughters where you at some level know they have to leave you some day).
Until, one day it hits you, like it hit me today. This time it's permanent. More than less. They have finally flown the nest! And you are now just consultants, advisors, well wishers in their lives.
And you just hope you have given them enough skill sets to fly high to their own version of what their life is!
Dedicated to all those Indian mothers from all ages whose sons end(ed) up staying in cities not their own!
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