deelusional

Mother's Day

How are you celebrating Mother's day?

Such occasions in my family are always spent with MORE family.
Haha, which means, the more mothers... the MERRIER.

Its funny, everytime we have celebrations like this, the mothers always sit together chat and mingle while the rest of us find entertainment with playstations, wii, and what nots.

Its a day to celebrate noble motherhood, celebrate the love these women have given to the family, celebrate the sacrifices a mother has made for her children.

But in situations like this, on a day meant to celebrate motherhood, mothers always end up celebrating kinship instead. The topics never stray far from "My kid is now doing this and that..." "He/She's is actually a really good kid... a bit lazy but very caring and dependable..."

And that's precisely what makes Mothers so irreplacable.
Their love transcends all boundaries.
Its never about themselves, whatever they do, they do it with us in mind.

My mum has been my most honest/harsh/worse critic ever, she's the one who goes against all my dreams of becoming a singer.

But she is also the one, who sat by the fax machine all by herself, dialling in the numbers continually for 3 hours.

She is the one, who begs me to give up pursuing this dream, but puts a bowl of soup on the table for me when I come back from a performance.

She is the one, who cuts up newspaper reports of me and keeps them in the drawer.

She is the one, who chides, shakes her head, laughs, and smiles when she sees me on television.

She is the one who will stand by me through it all.

She is my beloved mother.

The one I fear, the one I love, the one I respect, the one I want to please, the one I want to do proud for.

Happy Mother's day mummy.