Parenting columnist Amil Niazi writes about hope as the currency of parenthood. It’s how we survive the heartaches, why many of us made this choice in the first place, the sometimes joyful, sometimes solemn belief in the possibility of tomorrow.
, teaching me how to cook some of the dishes I grew up with — chicken biryani, seek kabob, aloo tikki, all flavors that feel part of my DNA. It’s something we’ve talked about doing for so long but never before found the time. Or more honestly, I hadn’t made the time.
Normally, on a day like Tuesday, I’d be checking my phone like crazy, frantically refreshing social media and news sites to see exactly what’s happening seconds after it happens. That day, my phone stayed somewhere on the coffee table untouched. She kept cooking while I picked up the kids from school and then as they crawled all over her, covering her in tiny kisses and smudgy, dirty hands.
I had put the question out on X last week and expected the usual handful of responses these kinds of prompts often get. Nearly 4 million views later, I ended up with over 500 responses and a thousand quote tweets, where a lot of people shared incredibly vulnerable, personal stories about a lack of money, stability, and career prospects. The grocery bills that elicit tears yet still somehow leave you short of food a few days later. The lack of community and support.
Then a day later, my mom came over again. This time it was to help me make a chicken karahi. She told me there was something in her body that shouldn’t be there, a disease that I can’t even allow myself to speak aloud let alone put into words. I felt the breath leave my body and wondered how the universe always knows exactly when the pain of something will affect me the most, how it knows exactly when to strike to really make it hurt.
It may seem like the world is out of control, like hope is a diminishing resource that’s getting harder and harder to grasp, but when I look down at my, I know that hope is the thing propelling me forward. It keeps me putting one foot in front of the other, signing permission forms, volunteering for field trips at my kids’ school, planning birthday parties and learning to cook my mom’s old recipes.
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