My Daughter: Anam Hossain
She was standing before me,
in a short green jumpsuit, impishly grinning: happy as always. Her beautiful
brown hair tied neatly to a side. A touch of eye liner along her eyelashes made
me gasp my breath. Ah..! She not only looked grown up and she also looked gorgeous.
Every June, she celebrates her birthday and this June she turned thirteen
making it a very special month for her.
My daughter is a very today-ish
girl, a girl of action, always on the run, sweating it out never worries how
she looks. Basketball, football, dancing and ‘Help age India’ took most of her
free time. However, her naturally brown hair always moves around her in full
participation of all her activities.
As a mother, I have always
insisted that she shampoos her hair every other day. Her hair is her best
feature and so far she had been careless about it. So far…
And now she was before me all
fresh from a shampoo, speaking these magical words, ‘…and that was the end of m
hair problems!’ I was not sure, I heard her right. I could not be sure. I heard
her alright and noticed how fresh she looked, especially her hair. She seemed
excited like she does after a Basket ball match, only now she was not sweaty. In
fact, she looked beautiful and neat with her hair tied to a side.
Before she went to take her
bath, she had insisted, ‘Mom, I am thirteen now, can I please use your shampoo?
Please, please pretty please’.
‘My shampoo is not for you ‘bachche’.
It is for oldies like me. Why do not you use your baby shampoo?’
‘No, Mom, Dove shampoo is
perfect for everyone with hair problems. Even Grandma uses it. A good stuff is
good for all, right’?
Who could argue with that
kind of logic, straight forward and simple, just like her. By the way, she was
not over convincing me. ‘And Mom, you are not old. Look at you, all my friends’
call you hat and your hair is a dream, all because of Dove damage therapy’.
When you daughter appreciates
you, it is the best feeling in the world. I smile at her and that encouraged
her to speak her mind more.
‘Mom, I have always eyed your
Dove shampoo bottle. I have used it behind your back. And every time, it has
left my hair nourished. I love the color and smell. Each drop is like this snow
white that gets lost in the Jungle of my tangled hair and my fingers are seven
dwarfs helping her, except that there are ten dwarfs, I mean fingers’.
She looked straight from one
of those advertisements on television, when she said, ‘I can now safely
recommend Dove Damage therapy shampoo and conditioner to all my friends and
yours too. Dove shampoo is ‘on the run’ solution to all kinds of hair problem
for all age’.
We both ended up hugging and
laughing together.
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