Yesterday was the day that many people use to celebrate mothers' day. I want to say that I’m not against this celebration, because I’m not, I am against the fact that, for many people, this is the only day they remember to give gifts to their mothers.
I never liked to celebrate this day. I always showed my mother, while she was alive, that gifts are always given. I didn't even give her gifts on the same day, weeks before this date she received gifts from me and on the day in question she had my hugs or a cake.
For my mother, gifts were never lacking. I always saw things like plants, utensils, clothes, handbags or shoes that she liked and those were her gifts throughout the years.
We cannot measure the love for a mother by the gift of a single day and the forgetfulness during the 363 days that followed, because we also remember the birthday.
I don't mean by this to make any offensive criticism of people who give gifts on these single days to their mothers. I mean that I never liked to show my love for my mother with only these two days.
Love should be demonstrated on a daily basis. With our actions, with our presence, with our conversations, we need to make gifts that remain engraved in the humblest heart of a person. Just as we are accustomed to eating daily to satisfy basic nutritional needs, we also need daily demonstrations of affection that fill our spirit with satisfaction and make it greater.
Feeling loved is an important need to fulfill. Demonstrating love to our most beloved person throughout life is essential to strengthen our psyche. The organism increases its immune system by feeling loved. We heal ourselves and recover from illnesses when we communicate our affection and love to the person or persons we love.
In this way we act as agents of moral healing for the people around us. When someone knows that you are a loving person and that you give out a lot of love on a daily basis, so to speak, you cause a smile to the one who sees you and identifies you as such an agent transmitting love.
In families there is always someone who always has this characteristic of being the most loving, the one person who gives happiness to everyone and it’s a person that we all like to greet because of the individual health contribution we receive from them.
To live in harmony with love is and will always be desired. I believe that from this idea comes the need to share a special day such as Mother's Day with our most special person.
But it also happens that commercialism took over this idea and made it merely a day of mass consumption, where you are presented with many expensive items to give this day and the more expensive the gift the deeper the meaning they give, as if that showed more love to the mother.
There are people who cannot give expensive gifts but the love they give with their small demonstrations is enough to fill a mother's heart with love.
My mother was always a simple person and her best gift was to have her children together and in harmony. Many times she could not achieve this. There are always disagreements between family members but each one in their own way told her “I love you”. But she only wanted union and not gifts. She was a humble woman with a lot of love to give.
She is no longer with me now. I wish she could come here so I can tell her I love you again and give her a big hug and then go on with my day to day. Although I know spiritually she has never left I would like to feel her physically today and always.
Happy mother’s day to all read.cash mothers and receive my hugs and all my healing love.
I share your sentiment about the commercialization of all these "special" days intended for particular persons - Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparents' Day, etc... If we truly love and appreciate these people in our lives, every day is a good day to make them feel special.