To My Ladies with Love

Here is saluting every lady on this special day - Women's Day. What would be life like without a woman.  I sent this to all my colleagues and was warmly patted for an apt one:

‘Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend?’ . . . … where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times."  From Emma by Jane Austen

I generally hate these commemorative days - we dont need an occasion to remember a mother or a father or a daughter or a wife.  I have always thought  it was the advertiser's gimmick to create a sales pitch and therefore these "M/F/D/C/W Day" got invented. Still, every year i am moved on a mother's day or a women's day (sheer coincidence both are ladies). 

As one of the many forwarded mails of the day said it nicely:  The angel of the Family is Woman.  Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman teaches hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

On a seriously lighter vein, i may have disappointed my lady-love in some ways. But that's ok - thats what life is all about. Am grateful she understands my shortcomings and is convinced my consistency is infallible and i can be trusted to be the same for the rest of our lives!!!