Oh no!!! I am so not a sucker for any of these over-hyped, fantaboulously marketed "show your love" events that the title might be a bit of a misnomer. But then again, its the only thing that sounded apt when I thought that I should write something about the most amazingly selfless relation I know by far.
Moms are special.. we know that and I am guessing to an extent they know it as well. Or else they wouldnt have known the exact times when to throw in that emotional blackmailing lines such as "Dont you wanna study hard and make your momma proud of you OR Yeah, I am only your mom na and why would I care OR I just wanna see my grandkids face before I see HIM (thats dreadful if u r the elder child) OR Have I raised you for this day" and many more.
But this isnt what makes them special. They are special because they mean all of the above said things and if you glance closely you would notice that even their selfishness harbors on them striving for whats best for their kids (According to them).
Motherly love is actually very simple yet most complex. Its sublimely clear yet undecipherable. They want their kids to get married but are always skeptical that the new member would have a share on their baby too. They want kiddos to spread their wings and fly away but all so sure that a bird thats left its nest would probably come back and they cry about that when all alone. They are stronger than the average sustainace in humans would let us believe.
They are the more heart broken than the kids upon their failure and more ecstatic on successes. I singularly am sure that most kids at some point of time or most of the time are in awe of their mom. Moms are creative and supportive of the child's dream than their dads (i feel the patriachal/male-dominated set-up may have led to this as the moms so many unfulfilled desires are colored by the childs finger brush....)
Mother- As a infant you feed on her, as a kid you hope that she makes things fun for you, as a teenager she forms a shield for you against everyones expectations, as a youngster she wants to give you wings to fly and soar for your dreams, as a young professional she wants you to be well settled in life, as a mature person she wants to be known as your mom, as an adult she wants to be playmaker to your kids and then she wants to soar away quietly...
She wants so many things and each of her want and need just strive to make you better....
I havent ever seen such a beautiful equation in math where selfishness = selflessness so brilliantly that Life actually is worth Living.
In Marathi theres a poem that says " Swami tinhi jagancha aaivina bhikari" (God/ master of the universe is nothing but a beggar without a mom). Now I dont know if there did be God but I so know he would definitely be a beggar without a Mom to guide him through.
I probably would never tell my mom how much she means to me; but then again thats so typical of us kids... We assume she knows it because she is a mom afterall...
In passing, If every day was a Mothers day, we would never have witnessed a war cos for a mom everyone is her kid and moms dont differentiate amongst kids...
