Mother is the Greatest?

Human beings are complicated beings. More so if the person is from the half of the human species known as woman. So, can complicated women be good mothers? Women who think the world revolves around them? Women who think the world owes them a living? Women who are selfish? Or rather, self-centred women, to put it mildly. Women who thinks that the world is just about money, money, and money?

Of course, we should not judge a book by its cover. Everyone who does anything will have their own reasons and objectives? Some actions that we deem self-centred may even be attributed to their past. Even if someone who made a seemingly selfish decision may have a more magnanimous reason behind the decision that we may not know of.

Some self-centred women are lucky enough to have their offsprings and relatives to bear with their demands and wants even if it is unreasonable and inconsiderate. Some are even so lucky that the offsprings that they left behind were so well educated that they feel it is wrong to ignore their mothers, just because they are known as mothers. Are not mothers the greatest being on earth?

So, women can just get away with anything by acting like a victim and be pitiful enough for their families to care for them? Especially when those women are mothers? Can mothers get whatever that they want even if they do not care for anyone and anything else in this world except themselves? Can mothers use their children as excuses to get what they want? Must children bear with their mothers just because it is a magnanimous title known as Mothers? So, just by carrying a baby and giving birth to him/her makes the child owe the mother for a whole lifetime?

It is especially confusing for us, when we are children and mothers at the same time. As children, we have to respect and love and do whatever we can for our mothers no matter who and what they are. We are being taught from Day 1 that mothers are the greatest. And we are brought up to understand that mothers will do everything and anything for their children. Women can even change to be better persons for the sake of their children. So, we have to do whatever we can for our children. But, in this modern world, everything is about me, me and me. Are there anymore women who really care for their children without expecting any returns and without any hidden motives?

As I am going to be a mother for the third time, I hope and pray for great wisdom to be a good if not a great mother and child. As a prayer goes:

God,
Grant me
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can, and
The wisdom to know the difference.