‘I have two flats, savings of four lakh yuan (about Rs 50 lakh), a pension of three thousand yuan (about Rs 37 thousand) every month… but I don’t have a daughter who can hold my hand and take me to the hospital, give me medicine, pat my back if I start suffocating at night…’
This is what an elderly woman above 70 years of age living in Henan province of China, whose name is Ma, has to say. Millions of people cried after hearing these words of Ma on a local TV channel. According to the report of South China Morning Post, Aunty Ma is an asthma patient. If we walk 100 metres, we feel short of breath.
One daughter broke the relationship, the other is ill
This elderly woman has two daughters of her own…the elder daughter broke the relationship years ago. Reason? Fight over the upbringing of granddaughter. The mother felt that she was pampering her granddaughter too much, the daughter felt that the mother was interfering in her life. The matter escalated so much that the daughter said, ‘You are no longer my mother.’
Whereas mother’s younger daughter is mentally unwell. She can’t even take care of herself, how will she take care of her mother? The single mother is now afraid of suffocating alone every night. Neighbors help, but they also cannot be there all the time. If you want to go to the hospital, you have to pay money to the taxi driver and ask him to accompany you.
People became emotional after listening to mother.
In such a situation, this elderly woman took a decision which has become a topic of discussion in the whole of China today. He appeared on local TV and said, ‘I do not need gold, silver or money. I want a daughter. Who calls me mother, who laughs with me, cries with me. I will write him one of my flats. All my belongings, my pension… his salary will be three thousand yuan every month. I also have savings of four lakh yuan, that too from him. The second flat will be in the name of my younger daughter, so that her future is also secure.
Aunty Ma didn’t just ask for financial help. She said, ‘I just want someone to call me mother. When I fall ill, caress my forehead. When I can’t walk, put your hand in my hand. I will give the money… but who will give that love?
Hundreds ready to become a daughter
After this news was broadcast, there was a flood of emotions throughout China. There was a flood of posts regarding this on social media. Thousands of girls are messaging her saying, ‘Aunty, I will become your daughter.’ Many wrote, ‘I don’t have my own mother, I will pretend to be your true daughter.’ A 28 year old girl wrote, ‘I am a nurse. I don’t need salary. Just let me call you mother. I will stay with you, take care of your every medicine, every breath.
There is still hope in Ma Aunty’s eyes. She says, ‘If God took me away from my biological daughter, perhaps it was because someone else was going to be my true daughter. I am just waiting for someone who calls me mother, and whom I can call daughter. This story is not just of an elderly mother, but of millions of parents who are left alone in the glare of the world. And it also asks the question whether relationships are only based on blood, or can they be created through love also?
