My random & quick two pennies on Mother's Day!

While the Mother's Day cheer is still in the air...I thought I should write this down (lest I forget to share these thoughts with all of you) 

Motherhood is a state of the mind....not a state of the physical body. 

Children should only be conceived out of love and out of the confidence to commit to a lifelong developmental project that never pays in cash.

Children shouldn't be borne to prove to the society that you are fertile; as is often the case in India, with tremendous pressure on young women to set everything aside and get married and have children. (often at the risk of scathing comments and scoldings and caustic remarks)

It is rather strange that many senior Indians have this thought process...because in our mythology, Devaki was the birth mother of Lord Krishna, and yet every mention of His childhood paints the picture of foster mother Yashoda in all her resplendent, affectionate glory in our minds. Sad as it may sound, there are many real life mothers who have been known to resent their babies,refuse to feed them,go into post-partum depression and think motherhood ruined their lives in general...and on the other hand, there are many childless people who are reservoirs of unconditional love.

If you love someone selflessly and limitlessly,understand someone like a soulmate and are ready to defend someone from the big bad world at all costs - anyone - a child, an elderly,a friend or even an animal...there, you are a mother! 

Happy Mother's Day to everybody. Because we all are capable of loving unconditionally....with or without the labor pains.

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