“Love your mother but don’t hate
another person’s mother.” —Professor M.S.Rao, International Leadership Guru and
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Mother's Day falls on different days
depending on the countries where it is celebrated. For India, it falls on the
second Sunday in May. India celebrates Mother’s Day on May 10, 2015. Here is my
message on the eve of Mother’s Day:
We take many people for granted in our
daily lives. We take our relations for granted. We don’t respect the people
around us. We often look for people outside and search for stones. In fact, we search
for stones by leaving gems at home. It is the attitude of most people in
today’s world. We don’t respect our
parents but we respect people who are outside. We don’t take parents as our
inspiration. But we take outside people as our inspiration. Probably another’s
pasture always looks greener. Husbands don’t respect their wives and wives
don’t respect their husbands but they often search for others outside. How
shameful it is? What kind of people we are! We must introspect and respect the people
around us whether they are mothers, fathers or teachers.
Indian culture respects mothers first,
fathers second and teachers third. It is the mother who brings life into this
world. Whether we have brothers or sisters or friends or not but we all have
our mothers. Let us love her and admire her contribution to family and spend
time with her. Mother’s love is altruistic and invaluable. It is a pride to
become a mother. There are certain things that are God-gifted that include being
born as a woman. Only women can conceive and carry forward civilization. It is
a great feeling to be born as a woman. It is an honor to be born as a woman. On
the eve of Mother’s Day, let us take a pledge to respect women and let us all
love our mothers. Without our mothers we wouldn’t have been into this world.
Eight
Lies of a Mother – A Heart Touching Story
Here is an inspiring story ‘eight lies
of a mother’ adapted from internet:
1) This story begins when I was a
child: I was born poor. Often we hadn't enough to eat. Whenever we had some
food, Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her
rice into my bowl, she would say ..
"Eat
this rice, son! I'm not hungry."
2) As I grew, Mother gave up her spare
time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she
caught, she could give me a little bit more nutritious food for my growth. Once
she had caught just two fish, she would make fish soup. While I was eating the
soup, mother would sit beside me and eat what was still left on the bone of the
fish I had eaten. My heart was touched when I saw it. Once I gave the other
fish to her on my chopstick but she immediately refused it and said,
"Eat
this fish, son! I don't really like fish."
3) Then, in order to fund my
education, Mother went to a Match Factory to bring home some used matchboxes
which she filled with fresh matchsticks. This helped her get some money to
cover our needs. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes
by candlelight. So I said, "Mother, go to sleep; it's late: you can
continue working tomorrow morning." Mother smiled and said
"Go
to sleep, son! I'm not tired"
4) When I had to sit my Final
Examination, Mother accompanied me. After dawn, Mother waited for me for hours
in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to meet her. Mother embraced
me and poured me a glass of tea that she had prepared in a thermos. The tea was
not as strong as my Mother's love, Seeing Mother covered with perspiration, I
at once gave her my glass and asked her to drink too. Mother said ..
"Drink,
son! I'm not thirsty!"
5) After Father's death, Mother had to
play the role of a single parent. She held on to her former job; she had to
fund our needs alone. Our family's life was more complicated. We suffered from
starvation. Seeing our family's condition worsening, my kind Uncle who lived
near my house came to help us solve our problems big and small. Our other
neighbors saw that we were poverty stricken so they often advised my mother to
marry again. But Mother refused to remarry saying..
"I
don't need love!"
6) After I had finished my studies and
gotten a job, it was time for my old Mother to retire but she carried on going
to the market every morning just to sell a few vegetables. I kept sending her
money but she was steadfast and even sent the money back to me. She said,
"I
have enough money!"
7) I continued my part-time studies
for my Master's Degree. Funded by the American Corporation for which I worked,
I succeeded in my studies. With a big jump in my salary, I decided to bring
Mother to enjoy life in America but Mother didn't want to bother her son; she
said to me ..
"I'm
not used to high living!"
8) In her dotage, Mother was attacked
by cancer and had to be hospitalized. Now living far across the ocean, I went
home to visit Mother who was bedridden after an operation. Mother tried to
smile but I was heartbroken because she was so thin and feeble but Mother said,
"Don't
cry, son! I'm not in pain!"
Telling me this, her eighth lie, she
died ..
YES, MOTHER WAS AN ANGEL!
M - O - T - H - E - R
"M" is for the Million
things she gave me
"O" means Only that she's
growing old
"T" is for the Tears she
shed to save me
"H" is for her Heart of gold
"E" is for her Eyes with
love-light shining in them
"R" means Right, and right
she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER" a word
that means the world to me.
For those of you who are lucky to be
still blessed with your Mom's presence on Earth, this story is beautiful. For
those who aren't so blessed, this is even more beautiful.
Message
Love your mother, but don’t hate
another person’s mother. Love your caste, culture, community, race, ethnicity,
region, religion, and nation, but don’t hate another person’s caste, culture,
community, race, ethnicity, culture, region, religion, and nation. As your
mother is precious to you, another person’s mother is equally precious to them.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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