For any other relation, celebrating a day in year makes some sense but for mothers nothing less than mother's year at the start of every year would suffice. Celebtating one day in a year & sharing high sounding words on social media is nothing less than an insult to the relation which transcends geographic & cosmic boundaries because love of a mother for her child is the miniature sample of Creator's love for the creation.
One day celebrations would have been fine if mothers took a single day off during labor or just a day off from feeding & cleaning when we were helpless infants. Or for one night, had she enjoyed slumber when as kids we were unwell. Or for one day had she stopped caring & loving us at any stage of our lives.None of our words or actions can do justice to what she had been doing all this time. How can ever we pay tribute to something we don't even know. What would be the payback of those early years which are blank in our memory. Up to first four & sometimes more years we don't even have a single memory of things. And during those years of total dependence, what she had been up to & how we made through them, is totally & absolutely her dedication & unconditional love & care. Can we ever repay? Is a day in a year & fancy social media posts with bombastic words make up for her time spent with love in our care.
Mother is a 24/7 & 365 days a year relation which ought to be celebrated every day of our lives. For Mother's Year every year, I totally agree with you. For Mother's Day in a year oozing love & care on social media, some pics & pinups is disrespectful, ungrateful & a sheer insult to the relation.
One day dedication is a trap of new way of life where parents are initially relegated from life when kids reach the 'freedom year' on 18th birthday. Then dissociation from real relations & quest for new ones begins. Some settle others don't. My life, my privacy, my freedom remains the mantra of life. Parents end up in old homes. They get visits on mothers or fathers days in a year with hugs, cards & snapshots for the memory. Grandkids also bring them cakes & chocolates & get to spend a day with their grandparents. Thats not us. But by adopting this bull-crap of mothers & fathers days in a year as an accepted norm we are surely heading towards that end. It would be a sorry end. We must celebrate mothers & fathers year every year. Because this is what dustinguishes us from them. This is actually who we are.
Only Allah knows the whole Truth.
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