A Good Read for the Mother’s Month

It was just this summer when I had the chance and the time to read a book which was given to me during my 28th birthday and I am very much excited to share with you the good things that I have learned from the book from a bestselling writer, Mitch Albom. My fascination with the works of this writer started when I read his book, Tuesdays with Morrie and reading his another bestselling masterpiece For one More Day is as expected, gave a lot of great lessons in life.

The true to life story was about a man named Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair.He returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption. For one more day the man in the story was able to spend with his mother who’s already dead for some major realizations in life.

As much as I would want to dwell in telling you about how beautiful the story was, I guess what should be emphasized are the messages the story has conveyed. The moral lessons in the story was basically focused on imparting how great a mother could be to her children.Reading the book that was just so in time for the Mother’s month, made me feel like there was a purpose why I get to read it before the Mother’s day.This is what I want to discuss and I hope I could atleast share good things like what I have learned in the book that in conclusion, I propose that it should not only be during the mother’s month that we have to appreciate our mother…it has to be every single day.

The book richly explores the often overlooked relationship between mother and son. When a son is so close to the mother, he is usually labeled as mama’s boy. In cases of broken families, a son who is left with his mother is by no choice a mama’s boy. I guess there is nothing wrong to be a mama’s boy and that is number lesson I appreciated in the story. It’s just so happen that a mama’s heart is both the tough and the sweet one that can tolerate and controls a son. It may not be that all mothers are successful in raising a son to be the best person that he has to be, especially the mama’s boy but for sure all mothers are striving so hard to provide, to guide and to mold his child to be a better person.

Posey Benetto the mother of Chick was the only divorcee in town, and with this she has to endure all the malicious judgments about her in the entire neighborhood. She was even evicted from the hospital where she is working as a nurse because of her family status. She ended up working in a beauty parlor and part-time housekeeper. True, a mother could bear all the hardships for her children’s sake. There are many “Posey Benetto” around us, those mothers who could willingly suffer just to be able to feed her family. Mothers who are working overseas are doing greatest sacrifices, and that is how far a mother’s love could be.

The cliché “Mother Knows Best” is for me always agreeable. In the story, Posey wanted nothing but the best for her children, a good life despite of all the odds. It was always never easy to be a product of a broken family, and mothers who is left with all the responsibility, will always strive to make everything normal for her kids. The “mothers knows best” maybe taken for granted by us most of time, because we felt like as we grow mature we already know what is best for us… we are still bound to meet instances where we have to run back to our mothers for a rescue. Admittedly, a mother can give the best advice and can offer the most effective solution in times of crisis. Just like what had happen to Chick, in the most difficult time of his life, it was his mother who made him realize what was best for him.

A Mother forgives after all the nagging. They will talk a lot, and will put on you all the blame but still they forgive. After all, it was them who first taught us to say “I’m sorry”. Sometimes it may take the longest time for them to pardon, but in the end there is still forgiveness. At times, it is needless to ask, we are already forgiven. Chick, made a worst lie to her mom that unexpectedly on the same day he was enjoying the “lie” his mom died. When again, he had the chance to be with his mom for one more day, he humbly confessed and was lovingly forgiven and comforted by his mom.

All mothers can be great. They are the best in their own ways. They have the toughest job on earth, a 24-7 task. That is why; a month or a day is not enough to show them how much we value them. Let us make our mothers feel that we love them everyday just like they do.