Mother's Day Annoyance

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. -Marion C. Garretty

SUDDENLY, AT 4 IN THE MORNING, three persons texted me with messages thanking my mother because today is Mother's Day. At 4 in the morning! Did you get it? It's dawn!

And these people did not even knew my mother's name!

And just as I am about to go wander off to sleep again, another bombardment of the same forwarded messages batters me.

Yeah it was such a noble act. Not knowing my mother and getting so sweet to her would get my mother to fetch a barangay tanod and scare the hell out of these texters, if my mother is sane enough to bring a barangay tanod. She don't even know if there is a Mother's Day!

I mean, yeah, today is Mother's Day for the rest of you. Why don't you just save your text messages until a sane person is crazy enough to wake up, like 8 in the morning, on a Sunday. Or better still why don't you save your money for text messaging and buy your own mother a gift? I am very sure your mother would be bouncing up and about in glee, knowing suddenly you are buying her a cheap gift.

These Mother's Day stuff and all are corny and only caters to commercially-inclined entities. It means come-and-celebrate-and-we-have-your-money day. So why don't you stop going with the crowd. Show your mother REAL LOVE not just today but everyday. And I mean EVERY DAY!

Mothers don't need a special day. Everyday is special for mothers, just in case you don't know.


(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)