Imbibing a mother’s core

Friday, 06 May 2011 02:42

Written by Aaron Benedict De Leon

On Sunday, we will once again venerate and give thanks to our mothers for bringing us into this world, for nurturing us into becoming the individuals we are today and for providing us with our needs and beyond.

But there will always be something beyond words that we could give them, and that is the attestation of our commitment to continuously become good children, good brothers or sisters, and even to become good parents in the future.

Parenting does not stop after graduation, nor does it come to an end when one gets married. Parenting is a forever vocation, with little if no reward, and often, burdensome and tiring.

And to make things worse for mothers, you have husbands, our fathers, who often become another source of their headaches and stresses in life.

The motherly life is hard, often too consuming. You have to be a partner, a mom, a grandmother and an individual in one body. A mother’s life was never meant to be a walk in the park, nor an easy way towards freedom from the previous life’s familial obligations.

So what does the youth have to do with Mother’s Day? We are all universally considered to be children. It’s as simple as saying, that all of us have mothers, even the extremists, even terrorists, even the baddest animals in the planet. The Youth, the young man and woman that you see with your mirrors, is the reason why our mothers exist.

Let us not ask too much from others and even ourselves in thinking for the general welfare, for the good of our countrymen, or even for the improvement of our communities. Let us think of our moms, first and foremost, for the many times they struggled in juggling their responsibilities, the many times that they had to endure major sacrifices and pains, just to make everybody happy in the house, whether you are a son, daughter or father.

Are we rewarding our moms with terrible behavior, unfinished education, joblessness and even our potential to commit crimes? We’ve always said that for the longest time that we love our mothers so much. We’ve said for the longest time that it is our mothers who are our source of life and happiness. But our collective resolve has shown otherwise.

We cannot endeavor the lives we have beyond our naked eyes without the foreground of our mother’s image. It is that image where our being was upheld, brought to life and our personalities were created. We ought to give justice not only for their efforts, but for the dignity and honor by which their acts were founded on.

A mother breastfeeding her child is painful, yet she allows her son/daughter to do so for his/her well-being – for his nutrition, for his life. A mother could have enjoyed the life of spending money on jewelries, clothes and accessories but chose to save for the future of her children – no matter how much a woman instinctively craves to be fashionable.

These are only tangible manifestations of a mother’s love, premised on sacrifice and persistence to provide only the best kind of love and life for her children.

These give us reasons to love our mothers even more, not just as figures that are rightly to be treated as such, but as human beings bearing such different and distinctive characteristics that only a mother possesses.

The youth, the children of today, are bound to embrace the ideals that mothers have set forth, that mothers have shared with the rest of the world.

We must be stewards of this form of love, and the best way we could reward our mothers this Sunday is not just to treat them in some first class restaurant, or buy them the most expensive gifts.

Yes, this may give them temporal happiness, but they will be more fulfilled as mothers if their children, our youth, embraces the core of their existence, of a mother’s purpose in life, whose cornerstone lies within the values of sacrifice and love, as they continuously bring joy to our homes and to the rest of mankind.

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