From the lips of an educator, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“A Happy Mother’s Day to ALL the Mothers in the World”, on the ads, as well as the LINE groups, these sorts of messages are, magnified, and, a lot of people are worrying over what to get their mothers on Mother’s Day.
I’d taken my parents out to travel yesterday, my mother told me not to buy anything, she told me, “Having you take us out to travel, to dine, is more important than you, treating me out to a fancy meal on just Mother’s Day”.
not my picture…
My mother started talking about the woman who’d sold the buns in her hometown, how after her husband died in an accident, her son immediately quit his job and came home to be by her side, she’d told her son to head back up north to keep working, but he’d insisted on staying with her, to care for her, he said, that as he thought about how alone his mom was living in the mountains, he’d become, an insomniac; and the mother said, that having a child who accompanies her close by, why would there be a need, for that special gift on this occasion? The mother and son both work hard, making their own lives count, getting through the days, that, is the greatest thing in the world.
I’d recalled, that on the eve of Mother’s Day, my close friend’s son died of cancer, the not-yet-thirty-year-old child had a strong will to live, he’d told his mom, “I don’t want to die yet.”, I’m also a mother, and, as she’d told me the stories, my heart started, wrenching too. I was, however, shocked, as my friend told me how she’d said goodbye to her son. She said to him, with that strength in her voice, “Thank you for being my son, you’d been very wonderful, spending every single day with you makes me the most blessed mother on earth, people often say, that we need to live in the now, with no regrets, we have, no regrets, every single day the two of us passed together, had been oh so wonderful. I’m really blessed, and proud, to call myself your mom. You can now, go find your grandmother, you don’t have to, live in pain anymore.” And, everybody started guessing, that colon cancer was caused by eating out long-term, and the food safety issues, my friend didn’t blame any of that, just summed up, that affinity has a day of beginning, also, a day of ending, she’d just told me, with that strength in her voice, that she is, okay now. I’d told her, that I can take her some place secluded, then, she can wail aloud or scream at the top of her lung, that she shouldn’t, force herself to be strong; but she’d told me, that she’d had a ton of memories with her son, and cherished the love that they have for one another, that she’d felt, no regrets.
A student from thirty years ago told me, that as she was about to sign the DNR for her cancer ridden mom, she was in such excruciating pain she couldn’t even manage, to lift the pen up; after her mother passed, without siblings, and without parents, she’d faced these holidays all on her own, on Mother’s Day, she has the ability to buy the presents, but her mom is no longer there, she couldn’t bring herself to be happy. But gladly, she’d met a wonderful husband who cherished her, and she’d had four wonderful children, she said, “I’m a mom now, I don’t need any presents, I just want all of us, my whole family, to live together, cherishing one another IS the best gift that I can ever have.”
not my photo still…
Surely, we’d often gotten the hang of the true values of cherishing others until either we’d lost the vital things ourselves, or after we’d lost someone we loved dearly; this, is too high a price to pay, but, after a period of time, everybody would start forgetting again.
And so, in the chasing after the pointless things in life, we’d missed out on time we should’ve spent with families, lost the years, and maybe, in these commercials that hit us on Mother’s Day, we need to, rethink, what exactly, our mothers want from us? And what would be, the best kind, the most meaningful of all the Mother’s Day presents?
Does anybody have the answer to that one??? How about, time spend with your mothers? After all, your parents are getting older and older, and you are now, limited amount of time you can have with them, so, if you don’t take time from your busy work schedules, to SHOW (b/c actions always speak louder than words!!!) your mothers that you loved them, you will be left, with the regrets of I should’ve done this, I should’ve done that, when your mothers are gone…
Life, the Obstacle Course 