A Strange Holiday
May 11, 2009
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Mother’s day is an odd holiday where children suddenly remember that they should be nice and considerate to the woman who carried them in her womb for nine months, went through extensive labor to birth them, followed by X amount of years of raising them. How do we repay her? We buy her flowers and cards, take her out to dinner, dress in our best clothes and make sure to air out all the manners she taught us oh so long ago. It is a sad thing that we must have a holiday to remind us to be kind to our mothers. I’m not saying we should get rid of the holiday. If that happened there’s a chance we might never be nice to our mothers again. I’m only saying that the evolution of this strange holiday is something to be contemplated upon.
