Can you answer my questions? Who loves you sincerely and purely? Who can give you everything possible even her life? Who looks after you without reciprcation? Who is happy when you're happy and feels so sad when you're in sorrow? Who is the person we cannot describe to finish eventhogh we will use the water from all the sea as an ink and the earth as a paper? What do you answer? Mother? Yes, that's right. And can you tell me the meanings of 'mother'?
If you can't, I'll tell you now. These are the meanings of mother:
'M' is for million things she gave the children,
'O' means only that she's growing old,
'T' is for the tears she shed to save the children,
'H' is for her heart of purest gold;
'E' is for her eyes with love-light shining,
'R' means right, and right she's always be,
Put them altogether they spell 'MOTHER,'
A word that means the world to the children.
(Adapted from Howard Johnson)
In Thailand we celebrate the Queen's Birthday (see http://www.thaiworldview.com/feast/mae2.htm)on August 12 every year. It is not only the Queen's Birthday but is the National Mother's Day.
I hope that every child will think of his/her mother every time before doing something unpleasant and bad and try to do good for her and society or the nation.