Brave Hearts
I know this sounds very cliche, but I must wanna say. Mothers are the best in the world.
Research has shown that women have better tolerance of everything - pain, suffering, hardships, emotional distress, etc etc. It seemed that God had created women with a higher threshold to be able to withstand more in life than men. I am not trying to create a gender dispute out there, nor am I a feminist, but I just feel that it is so true. I have seen many men breakdown or give up in life when I dare say many women in the same shoes would be able to pull through.
Today is Mother's Day and Straits Times carried a special feature on unique mothers who have demonstrated strength and bravery in life. Every story is so touching. Maybe I am more easily touched as a new mother, I don't know. But indeed every story demonstrated the amount of strength that God has placed within women to make us who we are.
There is this mother who's suffering from brain cancer. The caption of the story was distressing. This could be her last mother's day. I wish the reporter was more merciful. But as I read on, it was a moving story of a mother who's gone through 3 brain operations, chemotherapy and just recently got back her MRI scan results that 5 more new tumours have sprung up in her brain. It could be a sad story that ends here. But the mother was so optimistic about her life that the reporter said she did not show a tinge of sadness or despair throughout the interview. This was a case of a woman who might slip into coma and die anytime. Yet, she showed strength and endurance beyond imagination. She said she had to keep trying no matter how painful, just to give herself, her husband and her 2 children a HOPE.
Another mother lost her son when he was 2 years old. He had fallen into a pond and slipped into a coma, braindead after the serious drowning accident when he was one year old. And he died in his sleep one year later peacefully. Throughout the one year, the mother who was an artist painted his son because 'she did not want him to be forgotten' and she wanted him remembered as a vibrant and active boy, not a comatose patient lying motionlessly in the hospital supported by a life support machine. Close to one year in his coma, his mother contemplated to switch off the life support, much to the opposition of many people in the hospital and her family. She then painted a moving painting of her son flying to heaven and a pair of open arms below him named 'Let him go'. He passed away shortly after that. The mother translated her grief into her paintings. What a touching story.
See.. many moving stories in the world describe the love of a mother. Tell your mother how much you love her today. She is undoubtedly the greatest woman on this earth.
I know this sounds very cliche, but I must wanna say. Mothers are the best in the world.
Research has shown that women have better tolerance of everything - pain, suffering, hardships, emotional distress, etc etc. It seemed that God had created women with a higher threshold to be able to withstand more in life than men. I am not trying to create a gender dispute out there, nor am I a feminist, but I just feel that it is so true. I have seen many men breakdown or give up in life when I dare say many women in the same shoes would be able to pull through.
Today is Mother's Day and Straits Times carried a special feature on unique mothers who have demonstrated strength and bravery in life. Every story is so touching. Maybe I am more easily touched as a new mother, I don't know. But indeed every story demonstrated the amount of strength that God has placed within women to make us who we are.
There is this mother who's suffering from brain cancer. The caption of the story was distressing. This could be her last mother's day. I wish the reporter was more merciful. But as I read on, it was a moving story of a mother who's gone through 3 brain operations, chemotherapy and just recently got back her MRI scan results that 5 more new tumours have sprung up in her brain. It could be a sad story that ends here. But the mother was so optimistic about her life that the reporter said she did not show a tinge of sadness or despair throughout the interview. This was a case of a woman who might slip into coma and die anytime. Yet, she showed strength and endurance beyond imagination. She said she had to keep trying no matter how painful, just to give herself, her husband and her 2 children a HOPE.
Another mother lost her son when he was 2 years old. He had fallen into a pond and slipped into a coma, braindead after the serious drowning accident when he was one year old. And he died in his sleep one year later peacefully. Throughout the one year, the mother who was an artist painted his son because 'she did not want him to be forgotten' and she wanted him remembered as a vibrant and active boy, not a comatose patient lying motionlessly in the hospital supported by a life support machine. Close to one year in his coma, his mother contemplated to switch off the life support, much to the opposition of many people in the hospital and her family. She then painted a moving painting of her son flying to heaven and a pair of open arms below him named 'Let him go'. He passed away shortly after that. The mother translated her grief into her paintings. What a touching story.
See.. many moving stories in the world describe the love of a mother. Tell your mother how much you love her today. She is undoubtedly the greatest woman on this earth.
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