Mother is a symbol of sacrifice and love. But slowly times have changed the quality of mothers we have today. Being a mother is not just about giving birth; it is a lifetime commitment and an endless sacrifice.
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There are enough reasons to celebrate mother’s day because they are the most important people in everybody’s life. The nine months of discomfort is just the start of the lifetime sacrifice a woman will endure in every child she will bear. But time has slowly changed that fact. Modern mothers now are different compare to mothers of the yesteryears.
HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON:
1. Woman of today plan their pregnancies. As much as possible they want lesser problems like conflict in time with their chosen career. They plan even the number of children they will have. For the modern woman, being pregnant is just a medical and physical thing. No mystery, no magic, and no divine intervention. They feel that they have in their hands the power to reproduce at their own will alone at any given time. It was proven in many cases that it is not the truth.
Woman of the past enjoy being a mother. It is the fulfillment and the very essence of being a woman. Yes they don’t plan their pregnancies but they produce better persons compare to the quality of people today. People of the old times left us the legacy of values and wisdom to endure for a lifetime. People of today leave us with scandals of corruption and misdeeds to be replaced by just bigger scandals and abuse of power especially from those we trusted the seat of power. Maybe they have a lot of unscheduled pregnancies in the past but they have produced less greedy people and less violent people. Modern day people behave more than animals. Animals are violent but they are not greedy. Now, life on earth is so hard because we produce a lot of monsters though pregnancies that is well planned but not the growing-up stage.
2. Woman of today don’t enjoy the pains of giving birth. The normal deliveries of babies now are slowly forgotten. Mothers-to-be now are brain-washed by greedy doctors to have themselves under Caesarian deliveries even though normal delivery is possible. Another approach is inducement and painless, both artificially remove the joy of labor pains. It is believed that children that was born through normal delivery are more loved by their mothers because they experienced and endured the labor pain of giving birth to that child and placed everything on the line including their own life just to have that baby delivered on earth compared to those who have undergone the caesarean operation and the painless method where the novelty of motherhood is lost. Actually, in olden times, caesarean method is only done to very rare cases of abnormal pregnancies. Nowadays, it is done because of so many reasons; the worst of them is the greed of the ob-gynecologist to earn so much. Bigger professional fee for a lesser time compare to small professional fees in a longer time of labor period.
3. Mother of the past era serves as model of every good virtues and character. Nowadays, their own mother teaches and shows children wrong virtues; the virtue of selfishness and love for money. In the past, mothers will bring their children to early morning mass. Now they will bring their children to mall and amusement park. Before, mothers will read story books in their free time and at night leaving moral lessons of the story. Now mothers have no time for their children; whether they are pre-occupied with their career, they are busy with tele-novelas, gossips in the television about showbiz personalities and politician, or busy socializing in social networking sites like Facebook. I myself have heard the story of the ant and the grasshopper and the lesson of being thrifty when I was young and also the famous story of the monkey and the turtle. All the lesson and virtue of the story, I’ve carried in my life. These stories equipped me with values that brought me to success. The basic reason why many children fail in their life now is that they have no mother or parents to guide them in their life.
4. Mothers before will do anything to feed their children’s hungry mouth. They will do anything; sell even their soul to the devil just so their children will have a good life. Now it’s different. Mothers sell their children so they’ll have a better life, not just for the children but for themselves. It is not a secret that in our society now, many children are forced to marry a man from different nationality because their own mother agreed of the idea. If love is the reason then it is okay; but the truth is marriage happened because of the reason of convenience; it is the worst kind if there is persuasion from her own mother.
Another one of the worst kinds is those mothers who allow their children to be used by other people for begging. Some mothers even use their own child as cover up for being useless members of the society. Today, the mother will sell the soul and body of the child for her own benefit unlike before where mothers will sell themselves so the child survives.
Being a mother is a great responsibility; a commitment not just for self and man but a commitment most especially to God. Being a mother is not a choice but a divine gift; a mystery to be uncovered for all your life. Having given birth doesn’t entitle a woman to be called a mother. The title of a mother is a relentless struggle of a woman to be a model and teacher to her children so they will be good and useful citizens of the world.
Happy mother’s day to those who remain true mother to their children.
