I know it is late to share with all mums on Mother’s Day, but it’s a good read.
Submitted by Dharam Sewraj

Being a full time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs, since the payment is pure LOVE…

One day, I was so angry, that I left home, swearing not to return, till I became a big SOMEBODY.
Parents, who can’t even buy me a bike, have no rights to dream to make me an engineer.
In my fit of anger, I didn’t even realise that I was wearing my mother’s shoes.
I even stole her wallet, which had some papers, torn as well, which my mother hadn’t seen…
While, I was rushing on foot towards the bus station, I realised some prickly pain in my foot. I also felt dampness inside the shoe. That is when I realised the shoe had a hole underneath.
There were no buses around.

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Not knowing what to do, I started to look in my MUM’S wallet. I found a loan receipt, which she had taken from her office. A laptop bill, which she had bought for me.
To my utter shock, I also found a letter from her manager to wear neat looking shoes to the office.
I remembered my father pestering her to buy a pair of new shoes, but she would convince him that her shoes would last another six months at least.

Also, I found an old scooter to a new bike exchange offer letter in her wallet.
I instantly remembered that when I left home, my mum’s scooter was not there.
I started feeling weak in my legs, and felt like weeping uncontrollably.

I ran back home with my foot paining, only to find neither my mum nor the scooter there. I found her at the exchange offer place.
Looking at my mum, my grief engulfed me.

I hugged her tightly and started crying loudly, saying: “Mum, I don’t need the bike”.
That is when I realised, the pain, hardship our parents go through, and the unconditional love that they give us.
We should only look to seek our needs and not our unrealistic wants.

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Ridiculing parents when they are alive, and longing for them when they are not around, has no meaning.
Kindly tell this story to your children to help them identify and develop human values in them.

Whoever and whatever you are today, if your parents are still alive, please appreciate them for it is a commandment from God. You can never know all that they have been through to see you alive today!
I value MY MUM!

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