What is the significance of Mother’s Day?

Most countries celebrate Mother’s Day to honor mothers on the second Sunday of May every year.

Mother’s Day is on Sunday, the 11th of May 2014

M-O-T-H-E-R
“M” is for the million things she gave me,
“O” means only that she’s growing old,
“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,
“H” is for her heart of purest gold;
“E” is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
“R” means right, and right she’ll always be,
Put them all together, they spell “MOTHER,”
A word that means the world to me.
–Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

When we speak of mothers, we are talking about an entity perhaps far greater than God itself. Mothers are the most reverend of humans who make us what we are, help us visualize things in a broader way and, above all, understand us like no one else can!

It is but to thank them that we celebrate Mother’s Day. With cakes, cards, chocolates, flowers, photo-framed memories and even jewellery, we try to thank our mothers for the innumerable sacrifices they did, sleeping very little at nights, being by our bedside when we were sick, giving us their best at all times and for instilling in us the belief that we are capable of achieving whatever we want. “Thank you” seems like a very small word in front of Mothers who not just help us dream, but help us realize them step by step. Life wouldn’t be so beautiful if it was without our angels, our mothers!

For a man, or even a father, it is not possible to understand the feeling of carrying a part of your own life in your womb. Motherhood begins there and continues until the death of the mother. That is a period longer than any person’s job. However, so selfless is a mother that she asks for nothing in return. Our happiness, contentment and success are what she relishes as her rewards.

Every woman in the world likes to be a mother. The feeling of giving birth is nothing less than heavenly. For to-be-mothers, the world revolves around that tiny bump which carries their hopes, aspirations and wishes for the future.

Mother’s Day is a token of the entire humanity’s gratitude to all mothers because of whom we have a planet worth living.

Mother’s Day History

The Romans are believed to have been the first to understand the importance of worshiping mother in the form of Goddesses Cybele. Thereafter, various cultures in the West took upon this in a greater manner and subsequently Mother’s Day became one of the most important events, although unofficially, in many countries.

More than 100 countries honour Mothers albeit on different dates. At least 75 countries celebrate the day on the second Sunday of May. It was due to the efforts of Anna Jarvis that the second Sunday of May came to be known as the Mother’s Day in the US back in 1914.

The worldwide recognition of the role of a mother in a person’s life shows the pedestal on which she stands.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, she is the one who will still be on our side, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. — Washington Irving (1783-1859)

A few ideas to celebrate Mother’s Day straight from the heart!

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