Mama, I will always love you

Janghaolun Haokip *

Mother's Day celebration underway at MBC in 2012 :: Pix - TSE

If I could make one person smile in this whole world, it will be my mother. If I could give the world to anybody, I will give it to my mother. If I will only listen to one person and take advice, I will choose to listen to my mother. If there is anyone I will trust with my life, it is my mother. Because if there is anyone in the world who loves me the most, I know that it is my mother.

Michael Jordan, a former American basketball player and a businessman wrote this of his mother, “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” This just reminds us of how important our mothers are and the significant roles they play in our lives.

There was this young beautiful lady I knew of when I was in Delhi. I would always talk to her with admiration while at the same time I was also thinking of her mother with deep respect for how well she had raised her daughter. That is because the mother was in a medical condition where she needed a kidney, and that young girl willingly decided to donate her kidney for her mother.

Of course one kidney is still perfectly fine for a person in most cases, but the beautiful thing was the willingness, and more, the satisfaction and comfort that I saw in the daughter to be able to help her mother.

To today, I still think of that as a purest form of love, because it was selfless and sacrificial. But how does it come about? Well, unarguably because the mother had shaped well her child. It was only a love in return.

It is quite a feeling that almost every child will intrinsically have a deeper longing for their mothers than they do of anyone else. In fact, mothers, for most of us, are the backbone of everything that we are as a person.

It is them that we always run back to at certain times, whether they are the most happiest moments, the saddest moments, or the most embarrassing that’s happened to us that we wouldn't share with anyone else.

That is why it is often said by people that a person is a reflection of his/her mother in a way that the greatest influence in a person is that of his/her mother. This shows how special our mothers are to us, they are the ones who have shaped us to the world.

The love of a mother is unparalleled. Just as they physically bore us for nine months in their wombs, they also mentally and emotionally bore us in their hearts and in their very being their whole lives.

There is nothing bigger than their children for mothers, no responsibility more greater than they have for their children, and no love greater, not even the love for themselves, than they have for their children. They sacrifice their lives, their wants and their desires, just to be a mother, and just so they could give you the world.

It doesn't matter how imperfect you are, your mother will love you just the same. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, your mother will always forgive you. It doesn't matter how many lies you've told, your mother will still choose to trust you. It doesn’t matter how much wrong you’ve done, she will always be proud of you even for the little good you do.

She will always support you in your weakness; she will always love you when you are not worth a dime, and she will always be your strength when you are at your lowest. Even when the rest of the world would turn their back on you, she will be the one person always holding onto you.

This is why I will never forget you mom. Thank you for being my mother, and thank you for loving me just as I am. Thank you for the sacrifices you’ve made just for my sake. And on this MOTHERS’ DAY, I wish you all the happiness life can offer.

May life be kinder to you each day of your life, and may as you grow older, your hearts grow happier, and your soul finds more beauty to see in everything.

This is for all the mothers of the world, HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY, DEAR MOTHERS.