MOTHER'S DAY CELEBRATION

Yesterday’s debate on ‘Need of Mother’s Day Celebration in India’ turned out to be a head-turner for audiences. I was one of the audience members. The affirmative team initiated by supporting the resolution, but it seemed to fail to convince at the initial stage. The team’s resistance proved enough allegations for not following the Greek culture of celebrating Mother’s Day. Indian culture seems to be far enough away to celebrate these types of days. In Indian culture, a mother is one of the strong pillars of the family; she stays with her kids. Eating, sleeping, sharing, and caring—all feelings between a mother and a child take place under one roof. What is the need for celebrating Mother’s Day in India? Why follow the flow of flaunting to bring a mother flowers or chocolates? The opposing team’s statements were sounded convincing, but the affirmative team was also not a weak link, and their statements turned the audience against the opposite team. The affirmative team’s allegations remained withheld. The team stated strongly that being proud of Indian culture lies in the inseparableness of a mother with her kids. But being proud of togetherness is cheating Indian culture indirectly. Indian culture is also implied to follow the same queue as western culture as far as the intimacy between a mother and a child is concerned. The team roared with confidence, ‘Are we really connected to our mother or just physically present under a roof?’ Celebration of someone or something moves towards the specialty of a person or a thing. Doesn’t a mother deserve special feelings or attention? Silence took place in the auditorium for a while. They started again: ‘We have made our mothers hella great, and great people are not allowed to make mistakes. Somehow, a mother is responsible for that. She is afraid to laugh loudly and to live freely, as she is a great mother. To be a great mother, she has dissolved herself into the category of good or bad. Yes, it is a fact that she has made rash efforts to convert herself into a very bad person for herself. Nothing will be snatched away from us if we make her feel special by offering some flowers with some realizations that she never realized. Nothing is wrong with giving her a beautiful gift: ‘HERSELF.’ Today, she doesn’t need to worry about the spots on our dirty clothes, our school bags, food, ironing, kitchen, or household chores. She deserves to fly with her own wings wherever she wants to fly. She is allowed to wear anything, laugh the way she wants, and talk whatever rubbish she wants to talk about without giving a damn to society or her own kids. On Mother’s Day, at least, she can be allowed to carry the tag of ‘herself’ rather than the responsible tag of a 'mother.' She has always forgiven the mistakes of her kids. Today, she can celebrate Mother's Day by making as many mistakes as she wants. Let her come out of the box of perfection; allow her to be imperfect. Despite these sacrifices, she is not in a quest for celebration; it is our responsibility to make her feel special. It would be better to satisfy our hearts by gifting her sweet balls, as in childhood, she fooled us by convincing us that she didn’t like sweet balls as there were only two sweet balls on a plate and five family members were popping on the same plate. Why not giving her attention? who attended us and dissolved her dreams in our eyes for our success, staying at the bottom ladder of her career to make us reach at the upper one. Why to miss a chance to make her a queen who always made me the king by addressing ‘My King.’ Why not to appreciate a mother who has always warded off the evil eye? It is easy to speak filmy dialogue about a mother’s heart, but her heart is resembled by her burnt hands while making chapattis. These are the same hands that played the role of a soft pillow in our childhood; these same hands cried after slapping us. Not much money is going to be paid to celebrate these hands. Despite being under the same roof, who noticed when the mother was noticed last? When did we appreciate her? When did we notice her dress, her wrinkled face, her gray hair, and her nail polish? Our memory is not crippled; it still allows us to remember that once upon a time, she was also a charming and slim-trimmed girl with a lot of dreams in her eyes. Our birth made her a plumpy mom, and she was crowned as a funny and irritating mom after ambivalent experiences in life. Even today, like any other girl, a mother can also be a big fan of appreciation without giving it much thought. Success, traveling, loans, money, promotions, and targets kept us from giving her time. Celebrating of Mother’s Day demands your time for your mother and nothing else. This celebration is to grab the opportunity to repay the regrets of years to a mother. It would be better to steal time and have some chit-chat with her to celebrate this day. But again, let’s make her realize that she can dare to say ‘no’ if she is busy with something else. She can initiate making this blunder on Mother’s Day. Let's permit our mother to be a common human being rather than a god. Let’s celebrate Mother’s Day. The above statements of the affirmative team convinced the audience that even India is in need of celebrating Mother’s Day.