05.12.07

Alma Mater (Nourishing Mother)

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:18 am by Miracle ♪♫

My rationale of why Mother’s Day is nonsensical.

• Somebody once said, “What I am defending is the real rights
  of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.” Thus I can nobly claim that my mom has practiced her rights to bounteous extents. Not only does she embrace a life at home with her family as a wife and mother, but also as a teacher, and a symbol of love.

• The word “difficult” falls short of describing the stage when she and Papa decided to have us home-schooled and raise us in an unconventional system. In a place where minds of people are bigoted, she persevered despite the hostility and degrading rumors.

• I am aware that it is not easy for a University Scholar at UP Diliman to ignore abundant career offers in the metropolis and instead choose a provincial and simple life for the sake of her family – although simple in the sense of materialism, but extraordinary and abundant in all the right fields. She was and continues to be an over-full-time mother and wife having only returned love as a salary. For her this is the highest salary one could ever think of.

• Like all mothers, she has flaws, and she rarely hides them…
  and like all mothers, they see our flaws but will correct and hide them… and that alone is a most wonderful gift.

• Besides the fact that we are gender partners, and even though I love each member of my family equally, Mama seems to be the closest person to me in a way I cannot elucidate. We are anchors to each other’s emotions and relationships, and we share a bond like no other.

• Her heart is an abode of forgiveness and love and in her bosom she bears the blueprint of my soul. She is my home.

• “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” That is how my mother is.

She is my real Alma Mater in the most veritable sense… and one’s motherhood is too remarkable and wonderful to simply be consigned and celebrated within 24 hours, out of 8765.81277 each year.

Let Hallmark be happy today, but let us treat our moms as if it were (and as it should be) Mother’s Day everyday.

“Motherly love is the fuel that enables a normal human being
to do the impossible.”

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