Drama Queens

I always thought Bollywood overdramatized the mothers of India…the over dramatic lines, the gossiping, the ultimatums…everything… but as each year passes I’m starting to realize how true to form they are.

I’ll give a couple of examples from my own life. Note, I love my mom, but sometimes I find her to be straight out of a TV serial.

So this week has been crazy for me. I’m leaving for Cuba next month and I have projects all over the place that need to be tended to. So I’ve been working late, then add in a low calorie diet cause I have lost only 1 pound of the 10 I hoped to lose, and the exercise I finally started…basically I’m pooped to say the least…
Even then I call my mom almost EVERYDAY.
So just on Wednesday, I completely forgot since I was not on my desk most of the day. I call this morning, this is how my mother greets me,
“So you finally remembered your dying mother?”
Seriously, my mother is not even close to dying! Yes she has rheumatic arthritis and she does get pains, for which she has medications, but she is NOT dying.

And also, do you know what she talks about when I call her?
I called her Tuesday and for 30 minutes she was talking about an aunty(who I’ve met twice in my life) I ran into at a party, and how sisters son was lured into a marriage by some other aunty’s-sister’s-husbands-sister’s daughter. She even went on to the details of what they fed the boy when they “lured” him into a trap by inviting him over to their house.
Now seriously, maybe its just me, but I really don’t give a shit.
My mom doesn’t work, she has hours and hours to think about nonsense such as this or which sari someone wore 3 years ago, but frankly I don’t. I get 2-3 hours of free thinking time, and I divide it up into 1)thinking about my favorite TV shows 2)what unnecessary item I really ‘need’ 3)what crazy diet I can go on next 4)my hubby and cat and before you think I’m a complete idiot, I
I try to exercise my brain by reading and analyzing literature.
Anyways, forget me having free time to actually physically do stuff, I lack time to even freely think some days, so shoot me for not wanting to hear about which aunty did what, or whose daughter looked terrible in what outfit on a regular basis. I enjoy a good gossip and criticizing session(because I am a Virgo and I am very critical) but it’s not something that I like to do every day….

It’s not just my mother too, I have seen throughout my life that other mothers do the same…
My mother in law is famous for giving death threats for not finishing food. I have aunts who can pass a gossip through 4 continents within a span of an hour as if someone having a boyfriend is on the same level news as the death of a family member.

I really wonder sometimes if being a Drama Queen is a fulltime job…and if it is, does it pay well? ‘Cause I think I may need to switch careers if that’s the case.