LETTER TO MY MOTHER
Love is the most wonderful of virtues! To be loved or love is like Utopian reality. Every man thinks his mother is the best. Real or imagined, mothers form the greatest link to what a man becomes in life, just as a father is likely to positively influence his daughter.
This I say, for in part I read -She's the incarnation of nature, that which is within us which can not be without, for it stays with us from the commencement of life to the time we go back to whither we came! There is an African proverb that states that a man who has never eaten food apart from that cooked by his mother, thinks she is the best cook! ha ha ha, fathom that!
The ululations upon which I can heap on my very own are extensive, exhaustive and rather sentimental, but then again I am just a man. Lucky are those of us who have been around the block long enough to know that we hold our own in stratospheric regard yet they could be the worst of parents. A mother's love supersedes every other. More so If it's pure, but then again is there any mothers without a pure love for their children?
As this is personal yet dedicated to the one I loved albeit absent to read this or be told of it, her love shall forever burn within me. It shall and remains the greatest weapon she bequeathed me,to fight for what I believe in, and against the ills of society; wherever that society might be. She taught me to love myself first and foremost. It's that red ember that lights up my path everyday even when amber comes on. For If I fail in everything else,love keeps me trudging on like a rock hurtling downhill! Love is unstoppable, can't be hidden, it flummoxes, it's a challenge, it's a mirage, a figment of the imagination.
Yet after all has been said and done, it's the only virtue that allows others to flourish It's through the streams of love that peace can be ploughed and irrigated. Love knows no boundaries, no borders, no rules, it just exists. It's Godly, it's everywhere. When all else fails, love takes over, It's the El Capitan of all things necessary and positive. For love we fight, for it we save life, It's only in love as in dreams that everything is possible. Even though we are inherently evil, love can delete that file of cruelty.
Mine was loved by her society. She was intelligent, affable, caring, responsible but most imperative, she gave back to society more than that society ever accorded her. She got what she deserved, respect and honour for being an outstanding and upstanding member of her community. It's that forthrightness and her willingness to follow the common diktats of decency, decorum, and doing for others what you wish upon thyself that I hope to emulate.
Each and everyday I appreciate and love the lessons. I remember with nostalgia, the one rather favourite lesson. It goes thus-If you didn't want to do it you should not have. That always followed on tasks completed in mediocrity of which normally riled her set high standards. She introduced to me the concept of guilt. That you are guilty until charged as being guilty. I say that in jest, she had no cruel bone in her physiology.
I would go on forever about my mother! It would make little sense and as I do detest to bore with long missives without the adequate epithets.
Let me sign off by saying to all those who will read this, whose mothers are still around, TREAT THEM RIGHT. LOOK AFTER THEM IN OLD AGE( OR ONCE YOU ARE EARNING EVEN IF SHE STILL EARNS TOO). THEY ARE DIAMONDS,ALREADY REFINED. MOST IMPORTANTLY LOVE THEM BACK BY DOING RIGHT BY THEM.
I would like to dedicate this message to all mothers for this forthcoming Mother's day! And those who would like to be! Be the diamond that this world needs, Light it up, Teach it whether it reciprocates or not should never be the issue. GOD BLESS ALL MOTHERS AN WOMEN IN GENERAL AS EVERY WOMAN IS A POTENTIAL MOTHER NATURE CONCURRING!
Love is the most wonderful of virtues! To be loved or love is like Utopian reality. Every man thinks his mother is the best. Real or imagined, mothers form the greatest link to what a man becomes in life, just as a father is likely to positively influence his daughter.
This I say, for in part I read -She's the incarnation of nature, that which is within us which can not be without, for it stays with us from the commencement of life to the time we go back to whither we came! There is an African proverb that states that a man who has never eaten food apart from that cooked by his mother, thinks she is the best cook! ha ha ha, fathom that!
The ululations upon which I can heap on my very own are extensive, exhaustive and rather sentimental, but then again I am just a man. Lucky are those of us who have been around the block long enough to know that we hold our own in stratospheric regard yet they could be the worst of parents. A mother's love supersedes every other. More so If it's pure, but then again is there any mothers without a pure love for their children?
As this is personal yet dedicated to the one I loved albeit absent to read this or be told of it, her love shall forever burn within me. It shall and remains the greatest weapon she bequeathed me,to fight for what I believe in, and against the ills of society; wherever that society might be. She taught me to love myself first and foremost. It's that red ember that lights up my path everyday even when amber comes on. For If I fail in everything else,love keeps me trudging on like a rock hurtling downhill! Love is unstoppable, can't be hidden, it flummoxes, it's a challenge, it's a mirage, a figment of the imagination.
Yet after all has been said and done, it's the only virtue that allows others to flourish It's through the streams of love that peace can be ploughed and irrigated. Love knows no boundaries, no borders, no rules, it just exists. It's Godly, it's everywhere. When all else fails, love takes over, It's the El Capitan of all things necessary and positive. For love we fight, for it we save life, It's only in love as in dreams that everything is possible. Even though we are inherently evil, love can delete that file of cruelty.
Mine was loved by her society. She was intelligent, affable, caring, responsible but most imperative, she gave back to society more than that society ever accorded her. She got what she deserved, respect and honour for being an outstanding and upstanding member of her community. It's that forthrightness and her willingness to follow the common diktats of decency, decorum, and doing for others what you wish upon thyself that I hope to emulate.
Each and everyday I appreciate and love the lessons. I remember with nostalgia, the one rather favourite lesson. It goes thus-If you didn't want to do it you should not have. That always followed on tasks completed in mediocrity of which normally riled her set high standards. She introduced to me the concept of guilt. That you are guilty until charged as being guilty. I say that in jest, she had no cruel bone in her physiology.
I would go on forever about my mother! It would make little sense and as I do detest to bore with long missives without the adequate epithets.
Let me sign off by saying to all those who will read this, whose mothers are still around, TREAT THEM RIGHT. LOOK AFTER THEM IN OLD AGE( OR ONCE YOU ARE EARNING EVEN IF SHE STILL EARNS TOO). THEY ARE DIAMONDS,ALREADY REFINED. MOST IMPORTANTLY LOVE THEM BACK BY DOING RIGHT BY THEM.
I would like to dedicate this message to all mothers for this forthcoming Mother's day! And those who would like to be! Be the diamond that this world needs, Light it up, Teach it whether it reciprocates or not should never be the issue. GOD BLESS ALL MOTHERS AN WOMEN IN GENERAL AS EVERY WOMAN IS A POTENTIAL MOTHER NATURE CONCURRING!
