Happy Mother's Day

A Pledge by Men on Mother's Day

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Today I write to honour mothers on a designated Mother’s Day celebration for humanity. 

Firstly by acknowledging my own 3 mothers who I did not choose at any point of my existence, to the mother of my children who I chose to have joyfully facilitated our children into this world. And all mothers without whom we will ALL not exist including grandmothers and great grandparents. 

I choose to honour this day by wearing the wedding ring gifted me by my children’s mother. You may say that the ring is a symbol of marriage and not motherhood. I say the ring is just a ring but it is wearing the ring that signifies our union as husband & wife legalising the parental functions of woman & man. Hence by wearing the ring, I honour the fact that my then wife is also the irrefutable mother of our children and has been front and center in the care and upbringing of our offsprings. 

This subject arose a couple of nights ago when my fellow comrades both happily married, don’t relish wearing their wedding rings for fear of losing them. A comical conversation ensued, ranging from lack of responsibility, inconvenience to carelessness and fear of loss of precious metals prevented my friends from wearing their rings permanently on their finger. 

Being the older and hence wiser among the trinity, I offered the following observations for rumination; 

For subject no. 1 who cited the inconvenience of having to be conscious of not forgetting his ring, I said that we (men) wear the ring not for ourselves or our convenience but for her! To honour her by proclaiming our pride of having her as wife and mother of our children,

For subject no.2 who cited the loss of a valuable and sentimental piece of metal to be hard to bear, I said that she would rather he lose the ring while wearing it than not. 

Spurred by my callous caballeros and these postulations put forth to my young charges, I am wearing my ring permanently, today and/or everyday (?) honouring the honourable. 

Happy Mother’s Day. We see and honour you.