Is one day enough to celebrate Mothers?
Writing was, is, and will always be the best way for getting my head clear. Still, there are times when there are too many thoughts going around in my head and am unable to write them down. In other words, writing is like a meditation, that helps me keep myself sane. Someone may say, then I should write every day, well yes I do, just not everything is posted here. Only some of my writings are posted here, the rest I either write and send to my Angel, while others are deleted after writing. And yes in some cases, I just write things mentally, and chuck it off! Alright, i know you would say she is a nut case! :P
Today happens to be Mother's Day, for which more than half of the world is going crazy. It is one day that I feel is more like a marketing gimmick or a joke for the most special relationship anyone can ever have. I could never fathom that celebrating one day can justify the gratitude we all should have for our whole life? Shouldn't a mother or a parent be celebrated every day? Coz they are not our parents or mothers just for this one day! They don't do things for this day to be celebrated, then why should we ignore them on other days? Someone would say, we don't ignore them or that what they did was something they are supposed to do. In my opinion, the best gift we can give to someone is our time and attention. Why can't we give them the same every day, maybe just a few minutes!
I was brought up in a family where my father would never have his dinner unless he would ensure that my grandparents are comfortable. He would sit with them, resolve all their concerns, and then will think of his dinner or any other thing. There were times, when my grandmother would tell him, first have your dinner, I will wait for you and not sleep, and then we can talk. But he would never make her wait. He would always be like, I can have my dinner later. Fast forward to today, whenever we receive a call from our parents, we are like, let me finish this thing or that thing, and then I will speak with you. And this has become mundane. And then on this day every year, we would declare that we love our mothers almost every place on the internet, irrespective of whether we have our mothers in our friend list or not! What is the point of doing this?
Well, I might not be the right person to object to this, coz I don't remember if I had ever wished my mother a "Happy Mother's Day", I feel it to be more of an insult to her. Rather, I prefer to speak with her for at least half an hour every day and be the ears to anything and everything she wants to say, sometimes I do tell her we should not discuss this and that, and sometimes telling her my opinions if I do not agree with her thoughts, and at times just being the ears to her! In the last few years one thing that has changed (I guess a good change) she asks for my opinion, about whether she is thinking on the right track or not. And most importantly she values that opinion! And whenever I find her speaking her mind and heart with me, without any thoughts of being judged, I always feel I have wished her Mother's Day!
