The most important things in my life include at the top to have children and have such a genuinely loving and fun relationships with them and to be my parents’ child well and to love and tend to other children (I ran a small private school and can tell you that this activity is an extension of the very same parenting thing). There are other things up there such as friends and art, but children always are at the top even if with other things. I think any mother (and father) knows what I am talking about.
It’s a matter of what matters to a future.
I know it is great to acknowledge Mothers and make this day special in order to make sure we express what we feel anyway hopefully all or most of the time, but in fact, I feel it is a notch higher in purity and intensity of
caring to make any day without electing it as such formally a “Mother’s Day.”
Any day can be a Friends’ Day. And a Children’s Day. And a God day, not just Sundays. And a Love the World and All its Life Day.
Life is valuable all the time. How the world would change with this attitude becoming a common feeling.
It would make any day and every moment special, alive.
This attitude would be a key to health and happiness in those we give love to as well as ourselves.
The more we canonize something, by making it a Day, by proclaiming a holiday and enforcing its observance or making its non-observance a social no-no, the more we canonize and set in stone, the more the life is sucked from it. It’s not spontaneous, real feeling, even when we DO feel that way. It’s not entirely by personal power of choice. Or at least that’s what bugs me about Blah-Blah Day. It sets, like a gelatin in a mold or concrete in a sidewalk, and loses vitality, freshness and truth.
As spirits, we can create at any moment all the feeling we would ever like to have. We can love our moms and anyone fully, right now.
I wanted to say this.
Love to you!!
Evan