“Love
You Mother... What I am today and Whatever I achieved.. The Success, The Pride,
The Royal...everything is because of your sweet heart wishes and Love. Love u
soo much
Happy
Mothers day”
Sweet.
Is it not? Wondering who said this to his/her mom? That’s the sad part. No one
did. I do not think the mother even got this message. A certain son posted this on
Facebook, in a group of which his mother was not even a member. I doubt if his
mother is even on Facebook. Well this is not the only tribute to mothers that I
came across on social media today. My Facebook news feed was full of essays
dedicated to moms. Some essays had videos and pictures too. Thankfully Twitter
does not allow more than 140 characters in a tweet, so there was a lot less motherly
love flowing across my timeline. I read a few. I passed most. However all
through the day I kept thinking, how many of these people, who are oozing
emotions and love for their mothers through their Facebook updates and tweets,
would have actually said the same to their moms in person. I could not stop
myself from imagining a scene in which an urban teen girl, popular on social
media, asks her not too internet savvy mother to not interfere in her personal
space when her mom tries to find out why she spends so much time on her laptop.
Not to mention the girl, right at that moment, is tweeting about her love for
her mother on the Mother's Day.
Am
I not an unemotional, cynical jerk to be thinking that way? I might be but like
I said, I cannot help it and I do have my reason for thinking this way. The
reason is, why on Internet? Why on Facebook when you can wish her in person. It’s
not Friend’s Day on which you have to express your love for your friends on Facebook because you
have too many friends to do so personally. For heaven’s sake you have just one
mom. If you love her and wish to express your love then go and tell her. If you do not live with
her then call her and tell her. If you are too busy to do either of these but have
enough time to brag about your love for your mother to the world and that too
through a medium beyond her grasp, then you are just a wannabe using your
mother to seek attention in the virtual world.
I
am not against Mother’s Day. In fact I am not against any of the days that
greeting card companies have come up with to sell their products. I might not
believe in them but I have no problems with those who do. However I find people
shoving their personal emotions down the throat of others on internet, superfluous
and at times nauseating. Love and adulation for the people close to you must not be
showered upon them on Facebook or Twitter. Especially when the one who’s
supposedly the recipient of all that love is just a call away or serving you
breakfast. You might want the world to know how much you love your mother, but
let her know first.
