A Gift Between Life and Death 媽媽

Tomorrow is the anniversary of my mom's birth. That would be the first moment she saw the world filled with turbulence and tests - wait, what? Though I'm not so sure people say newborn babies cannot see, but this is not about that.

Seriously, I don't know how should I do this but, I'm running out of idea. There is just plain nothing in the world that is best fitting as gift.

And later that I know, the gift is always there.

"The best gift during a birthday is seeing the person who gave birth to you be right by your side."

If the best gift for me would be my mother, then my mother's best gift is my grandmother!

I used to hear some voices say:

"Why should we give presents for those who repeated another year of the same date he/she was born? What had they done so they deserve such ceremonies? They'd done absolutely nothing. The mother however, battled between life and death for her baby to experience life.

They are the one who should be celebrated. Another year passed, we should be grateful the person who'd carried us nine months in her womb is still there to breathe life. Why can't we be the best present for them - at least we could try.

Even if our mother has become one of the shining stars in the midst of night, dua's from her children is what makes it so. She's the luckiest star then.

Okay this is a very cliche wordings but,

They don't need a single cent from us - but maybe we can still help them pay the bills - and all we have to do is love and appreciate them the same way they did to us, though we should do more.

Sometimes it may be difficult, but hey should we be giving up already, we will never forgive ourselves. Ever heard of the idiom "one good turn deserves another"? 

Patience and passion is what we need most.

Nothing comes easy la bro.