We are all expected to spend the day with our mothers, buy them nice gifts and indulge them, taking them out to a nice meal etc. And I would like to say that I have nothing against mothers and indulging them, letting them know how special they are, but mother's day is such a pathetic commercial excuse for all the chocolate, flowers, soaps&incense stores, along with the David Jones and Myers of this world, to get you to buy products for your dear darling mother.
It's a joke. Why should we have to be told that on this day, you spoil you're mother and tell her how special she is. Shouldn't you do that whenever you feel is necessary anyway? Shouldn't that be a default setting in expressing our love for them?
As was so cliched-ly stated this morning in the way-to-early mother's day mass at school, Mothers are so special, and they do endless things for us.
Yes. They do.
and I cannot describe to you how much I appreciate and care for my mother, but this holiday is not even a real holiday. It's a confusion.
What's more, why is it that the CHILDREN are the only ones expected to do anything?
If the day is a day to celebrate the mothers of the family, shouldn't it be collaboratively done so by the family? Just because we are the children, doesn't mean we should have to organise and plan every single detail and purchase every single gift. The husbands are part of the family too, what stops them from celebrating their wife for her motherly duties to the family?
And then, what do you do when the taste of your mother is not only out of your price range but also very picky?
Well basically we're just screwed.
And we're expected to take on all the costs of the entire operation too.
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