Mothers Day

It is one of the most enduring relationships that has finally become a prey to the commercial exploiters . Every now and then , newspapers are awash with doting children eulogising their parents for the virtues they have imbibed in them from parenting. The things have come to such a passe that it has become ridiculous , overtly over expressive , exaggerated and aggrandized .

It has struck me why only mothers who are in the business of glam world always highlighted as success . Is it because they make an appealing read for one and all . Why not the poorest of woman , a destitude who is struggling to make both ends meet not higlighted , not as success story but as the horrors of motherhood , the pain and the agony when one is not able to give to their child what by Law of Nature bound to be their destiny ,Care and Nurture .

Every individual , is a success in his own right . Assigning success to only those who are wealthy , is doing injustice to the concept of affection that ought not be measured in terms of success but the journey and the overcoming of great hindrances .

Mothers Day , was celebrated with all the fanfare just the preceeding week . All those mothers , exemplified as page 3 phenomenon , were the ones who hogged the limelight . It sounded so funny to hear them preach the virtues of love , affection when they themselves have outsourced it to nannies , manning their wards . As a mother , when one is staying away from the child , the child is being done an irreparable damage. Even a young toddler , incipent in his cognitive skills , is accustomed to get impatient when the mothers , always maketed as a go getter in the corporate world , should be heading for home .He is missing the warmth , the concern , the empathy , the tender love being showered by his only soulmate , leaving a deficit that is irrevocable.

All these manufactured , concocted stories of mothers playing dual role to the perfect are sources of great discomfort to the ones who are actually the brunt of working woman . For them it is a guilt that they are not able to match their peers with a finesse .

I think the concept of super human beings is just a concocted piece of work . Humans have to have their shares of failures , their agonies.