Mothers’ day has come and gone (it was last Sunday, if it escaped you completely), did you observe it? Did you give a thought to why this day was instituted in the first place? What does mother’s day mean to you?
Last Sunday was the hundredth anniversary of Mother’s day (it was instituted and first celebrated in May 1908) and while it is still celebrated, I feel it has lost much of its original significance and meaning. It was the decade long, tireless efforts of Anna Jarvis due to which the second Sunday of every May is celebrated as Mother’s day. What originally was initiated as a way to show our mothers how much we as their children value their devotion and sacrifice, and how we appreciate the “truth, purity and broad charity of mother love”, now appears to have lost some of its original significance, and has been somewhat derailed by commercialism and quick-fix gifts and greetings. While Anna Jarvis originally visualized simple gestures such as a single white carnation and a heartfelt letter, now Mother’s day has become rather different.
Mind though I am not saying it has changed in a bad way; it has merely changed in a way that reflects the times that we live it. With the internet giving you the incredible convenience of being able to simply send your mother an ecard, or finding a nice gift over the internet (perhaps at a discount) and having it shipped to your mother without having to bother to go and deliver it personally, Mother’s day has simply evolved to echo the times we live in.
Also the lives that we now lead are such that it is not possible to observe mother’s day in the spirit that it was meant to be. Ideally we should be able to take time out and perhaps visit our mothers on the day or at least write her a heartfelt, sincere letter of appreciation. However busy lives and distances do make these things difficult. If therefore I sent my mother a nice card with some lines hand-written inside along with say a book that I thought she may enjoy and spoke to her at length over the phone, I think I conveyed my appreciation of her in the best way possible for me, I think that I made her day somewhat better and I think that I celebrated Mother’s Day in the best possible manner for me. Did you celebrate Mothers’ day? If you did what was it that you did?

This is not all unsubstantiated you know I have some facts for you here; this economic indicator was coined by a George Taylor in the US during the late 1920’s. In the ‘20’s and 60’s the hemlines were high, so were the stock markets. In the 30’s and 40’s during the market crash the hemlines were so low that women were tripping on their long skirts. In 1929 when Wall Street crashed the hemlines dropped almost overnight. It was during the sixties along with the rise in the stock markets did the hemlines move north. The advent of Mary Quant’s brash mini-skirt marking a booming economy to only have hemlines drop to the feet during the 70’s slump.
Quirky but yet a historically accurate tool. It could be thought that an economic slowdown could lead women towards nostalgic, conservative looks and during an economic boom: lots of color, daring, playful, unusual pairing and downright naughty. However the million-dollar question posed here, which comes first? Thigh-high or NASDAQ-high?? It is open to debate …
Alternative health care: Lets look at it; these methods of today are incursive ‘alternate methods’ to the original method of time immemorial. The right method is allowing the nature to be, i.e. allowing human nature to be and understand how to approach an illness than to attempt to force the body into submission. Which is why allopathic medicines have side-effects. A correct method will have no side-effects.
Get out of that chair and get active! It’s the best way to build up immunity.
Emma Watson, the pretty co star of the Harry Potter films turned 18 recently, and this apparently is big news for some gossip related news sites and blogs. Fine! But what really appalled me is an ‘article’ about her that showed photos of her see thru underwear! This is when I thought how crazy is this world that something like this masquerades as ‘news’ or ‘interesting post’ or whatever.
The world is so celebrity crazy that every move made by the beleaguered Britney Spears is reported and re-reported to death! She got married, she got divorced, she got pregnant, had a baby got married again, became a drug or alcohol addict, went into rehab, got out, whatever!!! I have simply lost track of how many times I have skimmed over news about the singer in the recent past.
And god forbids that anyone in a relationship should be suspected to call it quits. A media feeding frenzy will at once ensue, and practically ensure that even if the relationship was not at break point, the unending hounding and countless searching questions will effectively put such a stain on the relationship as to make it untenable.
I for one am convinced that the story hungry paparazzi, ever eager to satisfy the public’s unending lust for any crumb of celebrity information, was at least partly responsible for the tragic accident that claimed the life of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.






