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More than at any time before, the world now is celebrating
Mother’s day eminently. Social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Google+ among others are staging a platform to express a daughter’s or
son’s gratitude towards their caring mom. These sites have been filled mostly
with selfies of users with their “first best friends”. Sweet messages and notes
are also storming across the sites by tagging the mommies.
For one day, Moms became very important and very relevant. Though
acknowledgement of Mother’s unconditional love is required, the expression on
the blogs and sites seem a bit artificial and only as an attention seeking
element. Children who want mere ostentation rule the profile boards over the children
who post out of pure love and gratitude towards their mom. Want the proof? The profile
pictures and posts speak for themselves. Most of them just trailed off one
person’s picture style after he/she posted a picture of self with his/her
mother. Also, of all the history of one’s profile, there would never be even a
slightest mention of one’s parents but suddenly on the days like one of these
appears a huge write up about their “most favorite person in the world”.
Anna Jarvis who founded Mother’s day eventually grew colder
to her own idea because the then business owners started commercializing the
novel concept. She protested, boycotted and put double the efforts in
preventing it than when she put for its creation but the Greeting card wishing
and Candy distribution had rooted strong. The struggle took a toll on her and
she was placed in a mental asylum later where she spent her last 4 years of life. I dread
to wonder what would have been her reaction to the present culture of pretentious
celebrations of Mother’s day if she were alive!
Happy Mother's day!
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