It was Mother's Day here in Australia...

in #life6 years ago (edited)

In Australia, the Calendar proclaims today as the most vitriolic of the holidays.


Dead Tulip Flower, courtesy of yod32, via Pixabay

Mothers Day, the calendar reads.

A day to celebrate those whom have successfully gestated an offspring and deposited unto the surface Earth (perhaps without consent).

If it is not yet abundantly clear, my views on Mother's Day are the same as those about Father's Day and Valentine's Day and St Patrick's day and every other fucking day that exists on the Gregorian calendar with which Western cultures are smitten.

You don't need a special day, whoever you are, or whatever you are.

The idea of memory is that our current moment is built upon every moment that came before. It is almost like time, as perceived by us humans is an unbroken chain of events that creates history.

Remembering, for instance, on the 13th of May that mothers exist is like asking a biology teacher to forget about the process of mitosis every single day of the year, except for one. Mitosis day.

For those that aren't biologically literate, mitosis is the act of cell division, and a good analogue for the gift of life. Not all gifts are wanted. Mother's day is one such gift the calendar gives us every single year.

There's stories on the news about new babes born, of last minute flights and goodbyes, or hellos, or whatever the fuck.

The fact of the matter is that every single day of the year, every single moment of the present, and every conscious breath should be devoted to that which you give some level of fucks about.

The idea that mothers, fathers, saints, or sinners (Why don't we have any sinners days?) should have a day devoted to them on the corporate calendar is a legitimate act of terrorism.

Its a day that is in place to make everyone feel guilty about their relationships so they spend their money and time on flowers that wilt and die. It is a day that expends chemical reactions, real and imagined, in the chemistry of minds around the world to comply with the social norms that are governed by walls of flowers on a high speed highway, available for sale.

It isn't a day to make breakfast in bed, or tell your mother that you love her. This should be and can be something that you can do every single day. If you wish to do so.

Instead, the florists place their flowers in rickety buckets on the side of the road, and remind you that you're a fucking abhorrent member of society if you don't comply and provide the budding ovaries of flora to your mitochondrial parent.

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Bah, humbug! 😆

i concur. i lost my mum and nan in 2016, a month apart.

Wow! Sometime life likes to throw everything at once! That must have been a rough year.

You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:

The fact of the matter is that every single day of the year, every single moment of the present, and every concious breath should be devoted to that which you give some level of fucks about.
It should be conscious instead of concious.

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HA! i hope it doesnt look at my page :-S

happy mother day My opinion is that every day of the same year, Mother's Day, because mothers can dedicate everything to us, every mother in the world has many friends and love 😍

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Happy mothers day. When a mother is happy, the child will be happy then. I am inviting you to love your mother.

We should respect mother in 365 days. Mother day for remembering how should care a mother. We need to gift to the mother in this day.

Its actually yo mamas day, which is why everyone's jumping on it.

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