Let me be your Mother

I tend to get nervous on Mother's Day. It has become an important day for many. Everyone tries to remember their own mothers for the sacrifices the mothers made to make their children world beautiful. Mothers give up their own world and make their children their world. I am intrigued to pen my thoughts today under the title "let me be your mother." In this title, a mother begs her child to be her mother again. Obviously, you can perceive the discrepancy in the title. On a such an honourable day everyone wants to talk good about their mothers, hence, its always children showing care and love towards their mothers. But as you can see, I would like to do it vice-versa, namely, a mother begging the child to be a mother again. 

According to the above title, there are two things to focus, namely, a bad mother begging the child to give her yet another chance to be a mother and begging the child to turn away from bad behaviour so that I can be your mother again. In both of these, it is mothers' perspective.

Firstly, we know there are bad mothers who have been a bad example for their children by behaving in a manner that would have hurt the child so deeply the child would abandon the mother. This is not an alien to humanity. People have lived this experience throughout the history. I have known a certain person whose mother is a drunkard and a menace to the family. She has been to different rehabilitation programs but nothing has helped hence there is hurt and sadness among the children. The children grew hearing abuses thrown at them. But fortunately, children have not turned out to be like their mother. The children regret to be the children of that drunken mother. This is only one example, but, you know there are so many bad mothers who cause discord among her own children. Mother has a certain responsibility towards her own children which also requires giving up her own whims so that the children are given more importance. If not, there will be discord, hatred and abandonment between children and mother. 

Secondly, there are mothers who have to see their children go astray or take a path that is not expected of her children. There are children who have not obeyed their mothers and hence, gone their own path; a path of disaster and death. I know a certain person who has turned out to be a drug addict and cause enormous pain and sadness to the ageing mother. He even becomes abusive physically towards his mother and beat his old mother. Mother has to bear this and swallow the pain. I wonder if this mother ever regrets to have given birth to this drug addict. This is a very sad situation in the life of a loving mother. If the son had obeyed her mother from early times, the son would not have turned out to be a drug addict and abusive. In this situation, precisely, a mother is praying for the conversion of her son so that she can be at peace that her son is truly a child about whom she dreamed big. Here, the mother is begging the child let me be your mother again.

In conclusion, as I congratulate all the wonderful and dedicated mothers, I challenge the mothers to be mothers again so that when the next mother's day, you can celebrate with undivided hearts. The challenge is for the bad mothers to be good and for bad children to be good. This way, everyone can have a great mother's day.