No matter where your mother is, send her flowers - they said !
So, every mother's day, all companies start their advertising campaigns saying "Get this for your mother", "Buy her flowers", "Buy her gold" and so on. They are fine, I suppose. I remember Amma, and that I cannot get her anything for Mother's day or for her birthday anymore. And then I see this ad that says, "No matter where she is, send her flowers". Now this made me chuckle a bit but it also made me feel so angry. I was tempted to order for Amma and ask them how they will deliver to after life ! It also made me realize yet again that folks in advertising are only thinking of celebrating mothers who are alive, who have a good relationship with their child and where the child has a good relationship with their mother. And co-incidentally I sat to watch a tamil movie called "Thai Kizhavi". Thai is Mother and Kizhavi is old lady, but contextually, it means a strong, matriarchal old woman. There are heart breaking scenes where he...
