I owe to my Mother

Yesterday I saw this quote on one of the cars: "Everything I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother." "How true it is.
On googling, I found many such related wordings.

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Jewish proverb

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." -- Lin Yutang

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." -- Honore' de Balzac (1799-1850)

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." -- George Washington (1732-1799)

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1907- )

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." -- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Author Unknown

மாதா பிதா குரு தெய்வம்.

One good thing I realized today is -

Our society/cuture/tradition/religion/caste or whatever u call it, has not always been the one with a male-domincated thinking. There was one instance, they told --

"மாதா பிதா குரு தெய்வம்."

A mother does everything that she can (or) even more than what she can, for her kid, what we call by a very simple term "nuturing the kid". But, who takes all the pride et.al..."THE MAN" but he actually is just "a man".

Is he called a father, because he is the kid's mother's wife? What else has he done as being a father? He can be called a father only if he has done at least a little bit of what the mother has done. A financial helper, who can buy rice and dhall for the mother to cook is not all that is required.

Only if the father is able to instill a fwwling that I am your second mother, the kid wil cherish the relationship and feel the coziness of the relationship.

Their presence must be felt in their absence also.

Even after a person grows up, he must be able to appreciate the efforts put by his/her parents in bringing him/her up.

Whether u r elated (or) sedated, the people u remember at that moment are the one's who have really made you to what you are today.

At this moment, I remember Amma, Appa and Shankar (no specific order). I can remember a little of Meera (my niece) too!

I wrote this when i was having heavy fever and feeling very lonely at home... :)

PS: Only today I realized that "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. Somehow, I had a thought that it was in Sanskrit.

See this link: "Matha Pitha Guru Deivam" is a very popular adage in Tamil language. This means the greatest "Truth" is the mother (Matha) who gives entry to this world by giving birth to us. Next comes father (Pitha) , because it is the mother who knows the truth about the father and she points us to the father. The father then takes us to the teacher (Guru) and it is the guru who then points us to God (Deivam). Here God represent the "Our Real Self".