Celebrating the profound relationship between mother and child

The physical connection in the form of the umbilical cord, might get cut when the child leaves the warm womb of the mother during birth, but the physical connection immediately takes the shape of an emotional lifelong bond between the mother and the child.

An unconditional effortless form of affection, which the two feel for each other, cannot be described even if the most sophisticated words are picked up from the dictionary.

ANNA QUINDLEN once said, “When someone asks you where you come from, the answer is – your mother… it’s so much more than love. Even when there is no love it’s so much more than anything else in your life”.

This oxytocin relationship, which is famously called “the love hormone” or the “cuddle hormone”, is the most divine of all relationships. A mother not only gives birth to the child but also births an altogether new “self”, which is completely unprecedented. And these two new lives which the mother gives birth to, both inside and outside her body, start resonating with each other and continue to do so, till eternity.

Every mother grows with the child and the child teaches the mother so many things that this bond, slowly and steadily gives birth to a “lifelong friendship”. The child reciprocates this love in every possible way, be it cuddling, hugging, kissing, playing, cooking, and driving for her or for that matter, surprising her, with her favourite stuff.

As the child starts gaining wisdom, certain things might start to fall apart except for this eternal bond. There might be times and I am sure there are many, in a child’s life, when the mother starts taking the form of a dictator or a “pre-fed controlling robot”.

What does a mother do in such harsh times? She gathers all her courage to be patient and consistently tries to pursue her blessings with perseverance and dedication because:-

“The life of a mother is not only amazing but the hardest at the same time”

When the child becomes a parent himself/herself, this is when the child tries to emulate what the mother has been doing since the day, the child was born and now the second innings of an eternal selfless bond between the grown-up child” and the “ageing mother” surfaces, and after a certain age when fragility starts creeping in, this mother-child bond starts getting reversed.

The mother has to be taken care of, like a child and the child starts mothering that woman who “mothered” him/her since birth.

So the child, for whom the mother was supposedly the “safest haven” now creates a much safer and protective heaven for his/her ailing mother where she peacefully breathes her last breath.

ZORAIDA PESANATE said, “I am not a perfect mother and I will never be. You are not a perfect child and you will never be. But put us together and we will be the best mother-child we would ever be”.