A day for mothers - Mother's Day!

Today is Mother’s day and I am surprised and amazed by reading my friends thanking their moms, social media flooded with the heartwarming messages on Mother’s day on Facebook, Twitter and other corners of internet world. I saw people tagging their moms in a pic, writing lovely messages, social media floating lot of surveys and campaigns to lure the FB users to participate, online shopping sites providing discounts not only on this day but for a week and advertisements running on both online/ TV and paper to promote this day as Big day.

This morning when I woke up to the celebration of motherhood, I felt good. Being a mother, I myself take this authority to claim that a mother is not who nurtures but is one who suddenly becomes a multitasker with all her body senses getting numbed except the one that respond to her child 24*7.  

The feeling was great but it vanished like a bubble and forced me to think -  is it a good thing to celebrate motherhood, feeling of “being a mother”, celebrating the greatness of our lovely moms only on one fixed day of a fixed month? Actually a day and month fixed by someone else, not you.

In reality, may be the flood of thanking emotions for your mom may pop up each day, each moment when you feel helpless and when you feel directionless and a voice from background guides you.

Yet, we all will wait for this day to wish our mom, to say thank you..!!

I am not challenging the emotional value of the “special” day. Honestly, I also wished my mom and could feel that she smiled and felt happy on the other side of the phone. But, this is the way she always feel when I tell her that I love her. What’s the difference I make to her, probably nothing – maybe I wanted to be a part of the same league of wishing my mom.

Celebrating only a day as Mother’s day, Father’s day, Valentine’s Day make me feel as if I am not left with ample number of days to celebrate my love with my mother, father or partner. Why can’t we devote few moments each day for our parents and partner instead of that one day to live and die.

At least, I would like my son to give me few moments each day instead of one day per year!!