The Crime Desk: Although everything has changed in this changing world, only a mother’s love has not changed. Every mother just wants to hug her children. As children grow up, their distance from their mother increases, but mothers want to keep their children’s faces in front of their eyes. So even sick mothers get strength in their bodies when their sons come to see their mothers. A mother may count the days by marking the pages of the calendar every day, hoping for the return of her child from a distant land. Talking to the mothers, it is known that their only hope is ‘that the children should stay close to their mothers’.
Mother’s sacrifice and love are forever immortalized in the world for ages. The stories of a mother’s love for her child are like novels. There is no end to that love except death. Although there is some difference between the work life of the mother of the past and the mother of this era, the sacrifice and love of the mother are the same. A mother never wants to say or imply that her children do not love her, despite many hardships. Talk to some mothers who come to realize that, in the twilight of life, they have wasted all their youth on their children. Now there is nothing left to give but love. In this mechanical world, the mother’s love and affection are ignored and left in the old age home.
I spoke to a mother at Pravin Hitaishi Niwas in Agargaon, the capital. He said that he got married at the age of 14. After marriage, I studied with the help of my husband. After graduation, I taught in college. My career—raising three children, educating them, and raising them—did not even realize when my youth was over. Now the children are established in their careers. I am the only one lying in the old-age home. This elder, who does not wish to reveal his name, said, After the death of my husband, I raised my eldest daughter and two sons one by one and married them. The girl went to America after marriage. Before receiving news from there once or twice a year, it had not received news for some time. I educated the two sons who did not eat themselves. I studied at the best educational institution in the country; those two sons came and left me in this residence; this mother weeps while talking. Pressing the burden on his chest, he says he does not sleep at night. Then I feel very alone. I want to see children’s faces; I want to hold them to my chest like when I was a child. I want to hold my grandchildren. But those are just imaginations.
In today’s society, joint families have been broken and single families have been formed. Where parents and children live. However, the challenges facing mothers are more present, said a mother. She said that when I was seven months pregnant, I came to know that my husband had married abroad. I have done tutoring from neighborhood to neighborhood to bring the child into the world healthy with the child in the womb. I got a job after the birth of the child, but there is no place where I can leave my son and go to the office. As a result, I quit my job again within a month. Later, I left my son with my mother and worked in the village. I was able to bring my son when he was in fifth grade.
Every mother’s life story is almost the same. The life of mothers is surrounded by various sacrifices and love; today is the second Sunday of May, World Mother’s Day. The purpose of this day is to remind one more time that, without a mother, there is very little home in this world. This day is to pay respect to mothers. Mother’s Day was first celebrated in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Although the ancient Greeks and Romans also had special days to honor mothers, Looking for the history behind the celebration of the celebration of Mother’s Day, it is known that the day started in 1908. Earlier, Anna Jarvis, a schoolteacher in Philadelphia, United States, was shocked by the family isolation there and thought of creating awareness by celebrating a special day for mothers. He died on May 9, 1905, before Anna Jarvis could realize that idea. After her death, daughter Anna M. Jarvis began working to fulfill her mother’s last wishes. With friends, in 1908, at the church where her mother worshiped in Philadelphia, she started Mother’s Day with an event for all mothers. In 1914, the United States officially declared the second Sunday of May as a public holiday dedicated to mothers.
