Why should not mother love her daughter more than her son ?
Herojit Philem *
Is there any mother who doesn't love her children? I suppose there is none in your record. Every mother loves their children equally, whether a boy or a girl. Despite knowing the fact, as I introspect upon the most beautiful creation of God, I felt a mother should give an extra care, love and time to her daughter.
I don't mean to say that son should be ignored. If you are a son, please don't get annoyed upon your mother for hiding an extra piece of love from you for your sister.
It is not that your mother does inequality among her children. If you know why your mother offers more care, love and time, you will automatically love your sister more than ever before. In addition to this you will give respect to every girl of the world.
Why should a girl child not be loved and cared more than a boy child? You, being a boy never and will never experience the monthly pain what a girl bears.
It is not only of this pain a mother gives extra love and care to her daughter. A mother devotes more of her time thinking of the future of her daughter, why shouldn't she?
The crime against women is increasing day after day. She will go to the future to have a secret gleam of her daughter's married life, as a mother can't help denying her children's marriage.
She will think what if her son-in-law is a drunken, what if he is a lazy man, what if he is a drug addict, what if he has affairs with other women and what a mother won't think of her daughter's married life?
She will even think of her daughter's mother-in-law.
When we talk about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, I would like to say that both are women one should know the pain each of them bear.
I have seen ill treatment against daughters-in-law in films and even in reality, I have no right to interfere in family matter but I would like to say one thing what my mother often told me, "She had left that parent who gave her birth to take care of me, so why should I ill treat my daughter-in-law."
A mother's worries do not begin or end with her daughter's marriage.
A mother will say to her daughter, "You are a girl, if you don't study and become a successful how you will survive. Your brother is a boy; he can support himself doing odd jobs. Your life will have some peace if you married a good man, if not your life will be filled with burden."
These words are what I have felt when I was talking with one of my tuition student's mother. I have heard a story of a woman who married a very lazy man, the husband never worked and the wife had to run the kitchen by borrowing money and buy things in credits, which let the amount shot up to lakhs of rupees.
There were visitors at the house daily asking to pay the money back. Even in that juncture, the husband paid no attention and did not ask the wife how she was running the kitchen. Eventually, the poor wife committed suicide since the amount was beyond her ability to pay. I don't know to what extent the story is real but I feel this kind of incidents happen in the world.
Why should a mother not love her daughter more than her son? Every mother was a little girl and they know the problems what a girl child face in her every steps.
She knows the fact that her daughter too will bear the same pain, what she had suffered when she conceived her. A mother knows that her daughter will have sleepless night when she becomes mother like her.
The mother daughter too will work empty stomach to let her children get well fed as her mother did. These qualities are with every woman, yes, every woman.
The girl who is being flirted also possesses the motherly qualities and she is a daughter of a mother, she is a sister of a brother, she will be a mother and eventually a grandmother one day.
* Herojit Philem wrote this article for The Sangai Express
The writer can be reached at herojit(DOT)philem(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This article was posted on March 20, 2016.
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