Happy Mother's Day??

Today Mother's Day is being celebrated all over the world and that has set me off to write a post dedicated to this "special??" day.

Mother, for most of us, happens to be our first "friend, philosopher, guide and more", our first support system, the  angel, whose face we usually see and register first as we open our eyes to start our journey of life. She is the person who bears the maximum pain, be it child birth or or compromises that she makes, so that we gain the utmost as we try to live and realize our dreams and her's as well.

Which mother would want her young ones to go away from her, which mother wants an empty nest, a nest which she so patiently and with doting dedication creates. Do we ever think of it?? No because she keeps on aligning her dreams as per our changing wishes. She never ever makes us realize the whole range of emotions that she has to encounter, day in and day out as her children grow.

Then celebrating a single day as a "Mother's Day", does it actually do justice to mothers, the world over, especially Indian mothers. For people in the west, there might be a case to have a particular day to celebrate "Mother's Day", "Father's Day" and maybe even "Family Day" because the concept of a family bond is not that strong as what it is in India. The concept of these "Special Days" though propagated mainly by various big Card and Gift MNCs, also play along nicely on the guilt feeling that many people might have because of the way they neglect their parents and their family. They see celebrating a particular day dedicated to "Mother", "Father" etc etc as a way that absolves them from their sheer negligence that they show towards their parents and brings down their guilt feeling considerably.

By aping these "Days" blindly from the west are we not making it very obvious that we too take our parents for granted for 364 days and try to make them feel special (that too a very superfluous and window dressed special) only for one day?? Why cant we make them special everyday??? Believe me, giving cards, cakes and gifts do not actually make parents special. Even flaunting how much you love them on the social media do not make them happy. It is the simple deeds that you do each day, which culminates into you becoming a better child, a better citizen and a better human, that make parents special.

Have you ever wondered if we have a "Shravan Kumar" who made his parents feel special day in and day out, who does the west have as an equivalent, in spite of celebrating these Special days every year? None that I can recollect!!  

All Blue Caramelers too should not wait for some special day but should work each day as thought it is special, only then can the company attain growth that is envisaged. If you work only superfluously and window dress each day, then remember, it is only you who you are fooling yourself. Your every step and action or inaction is being watched and scrutinized.