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Dear Group,
Here is something I think we can all learn from with no disagreement among different beliefs or life philosophies and relevent to all...we all have Moms...LOL. This thought provoking letter was sent to me and touched me by someone who has sent to me and provoked my thought many times since I have been receiving uplifting messages for free from him for about 2 years....Christian Godefroy.
Thank you.
Wishing you well.
Donnie
Wishing you health and happiness,
Donald E. Ryles
The "Many, But One" Project
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another sent just a few days before
Mother's Day.
Dear brother,
To be a Mom is a very tough job. Ironically,
despite the fact that we are older now, we don't
seem to have made her role as Mom any easier. If
anything, it's gotten harder. Think about it:
Growing up, she teaches us to feel valuable
and intelligent and does it so well that we go
on to believe that we are far more intelligent
than she is.
Everything that our mother has is partially
ours; everything we have is totally our own.
For a lot of people, "Mom" is somehow responsible
for everything that doesn't work out in their lives.
She, as Mom, nevertheless, is supposed to forgive
us our most selfish and serious offenses.
We, as children, carry long simmering resentment
and judgement of her for years on end, over the
slightest grievances.
As her children we have all the right in the
world to comment on everything she does,
everything she doesn't do, and absolutely everything
she's supposed to do.
But, we require unequivocally, that she fully
respect our privacy and independence.
Typically, within easy reach, we keep a long
list of things that she, in our judgement did
absolutely wrong or stood by passively while anything
remotely bad happened, yet, more often than not, we
can only vaguely recall any good things she might
have given us or helped us with, no matter how
selflessly or great the cost to her.
Frequently we reproach her for not having
expressed her love for us, certainly in the way
we would have expected her to and of course, that
becomes the pretext for not demonstrating how
we really feel or to express it in a way that
would be meaningful to her.
(She clearly bears all the responsibility)
The defects we have we inherit from her and
the good qualities we have are in spite of her.
She took the bread out of her mouth to give
us the best possible education and now we feel
more refined and worldy than she will ever be.
We want our mother be a very good grandmother,
to be attentive to her grandchildren, but to
never, ever meddle with our parenting style
or how we choose to educate our children.
It pleases us that our mother should feel
grateful when we decide what's best for her,
and of course, without having to listen to how
she might feel about it.
(Which is certainly more convenient for us)
Grateful as we might feel for our dear mother
on this special day, Mother's Day, we get all
maudlin when buying her a cheap Mother's Day
card, a convenient Mother's Day gift from a
convenient store, then we make a big deal of
inviting her to eat our favorite food.
And then in years to come we'll complain
about our own ingrateful children and how hard
and harsh they are towards us.
Fortunately, even though you hear that this
is how it is for a lot of people...
...that's not how it is in my case.
P.S. Please don't show this letter to mom.
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Donald , I hope you've enjoyed this
letter as much as I have.
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