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Society emphasized to show affection for mothers
Mother’s Day celebrated with enthusiasm
Muhammad Arshad
Islamabad—Like other parts of the globe, the World Mother’s Day, was
celebrated across Pakistan on Sunday.
On this auspicious occasion, all celebrations were devoted to those
honourable mothers who are the experts of one of the most difficult
tasks on earth.
Throughout the country, special events were arranged to pay tributes
to mothers and processions were taken out by civil society members
to highlight the issues pertaining to motherhood.
The participants emphasized upon the male members of society to
nurture affection for their mothers especially in the age of
senility.
The Mother’s Day is celebrated at the international level but with
the changes in customs and traditions of the countries, the days and
ways of celebrating this day vary from region to region.
Mother’s Day is celebrated to honour all mothers and to express
gratitude for the hardships they bear in bringing up a child.
In a way, it is like paying rich tributes to one of those persons
who have had a great impact on our lives, a person whose love and
care knows no boundaries, a person who does everything to keep her
children happy and joyous. Mother is the first person from whom we
learn about values and how to differ between right and wrong.
Who can deny that all through our lives we love to put our heads in
the lap of our mothers without caring for our status, position and
age. So May 11, is a day to revive this lovely and unique
relationship of a mom and child by adding that extra fresh energy to
it.
The ‘Mother’s Day’ was first proclaimed in 1870 in the United
States. And it was Julia Ward Howe who proclaimed the same in
Boston. Howe also called for it to be observed each year at the
national level in 1872.
In fact the original idea behind Howe’s “Mother’s Day” was a call
for Pacifism and disarmament by all the women. And in such meetings
those mothers were supposed to participate whose sons had fought or
died on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
Later Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, to commemorate the
anniversary of her mother’s death two years earlier on May 9, 1905,
first celebrated Mother’s Day in 1907 in a small private way.
Jarvis’s mother, whose name was also ‘Anna Jarvis’, was an active
participant in the Mother’s Day campaigns. Inspired with her
mother’s death and in order to pay tribute to her, the younger
Jarvis launched a quest to get wider recognition of Mother’s Day.
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