Dearest Mum,
Happy Mother’s Day! Wish you everlasting health and happiness! Thanks for your unparalleled affection and solicitude all these years, what words should I use to describle your selfless love, deeper than the sea, wider than the sky, purer than any love in this world? I donot know, I only know that your love is forever irreplaceable and never ask for rewards.
Mum, I know all the hardship you have gone through to bring up two children, our family is not rich, but you are firm in the determination to send my brother and I to University, to live another kind of life unlike you and Dad, and it’s not that easy! I remember that you were quite strict with us when we were still kids, sometimes you’ll even beat us when irritated, but in fact, you felt more painful than us, because your heart ached.
I don’t know how many times you have wept because of us, when I was bitten by a dog while playing outside with my peers, you shedded tears simply because I got hurt; when my brother got seriously hurt with his knee bleeding because of learning to ride a bike, you cried; when my brother became a boarder the first time during Junior High School life, you cried, worrying that he will not be accustomed to the new environment; when I completely failed in the College Entrance Exam, you sobbed too, maybe you thought that it’s unfair for your diligent daughter to fail in such an important exam, maybe you just couldn’t bear my despairing weeping; when I first rented a room outside the campus for preparing the Entrance Exam for Postgraduates, you cried as well……Mum, when I think of you, those episodes occur to my mind one by one like a film, some sort of moving film. Mum, I can never repay you my whole life!
As a matter of fact, although you have high expectations towards us, you never compelled us to do well in exams every time, you are wise, affable and tolerant, you understood that people could never be perfect. You even pull me out of various plights time after time, and it’s you who provided me with best suggestions and never blamed me harshly. When I failed in important exams, you would encourage me to move on.
Mum, you are a clever and capable woman, and kind—hearted as well, you try to make ends meet at difficult times of our family with low earnings, yet never prevent us from buying a large number of reference books, on the other hand, though we are not rich, you treated neighbours and all our relatives well, so you are thought highly of by many.
I always heard that you were quite beautiful and attractive when you were young, but now years left too much marks on your face. But you never feel regretful, instead, you feel proud, because you have cultivated two postgraduates!
Mum, proud and lucky to be your daughter, love you, forever!
