More about Mother’s Day/Mothering Sunday, call it what you will.
Social networks, especially Facebook, often get lots of grief from critics, now and then with good reason. Sharing pages of neo Nazi groups like Britain First, or just so called free holiday hoaxes are examples. But on Mother’s Day, Facebook comes alive.
I am not one to pour out my endless love – the current popular expression is ‘to the moon and back’, which is another way of saying quite a lot – on social networks. I would like to think those close to me would take my word for it, rather than my having to repeat them in the public gaze, but I think it’s rather sweet when people proudly state their love for their mothers (and just about anyone they feel like saying they love). We Brits have not always been too good at expressing ourselves in public so if a social network can free us up, then who am I to complain?
There is no point in dwelling on the commercialisation of such days because that’s the society in which we live. And let’s be honest: if we really were that offended by supermarkets exploiting our love for our fellow citizens, we wouldn’t buy their products, would we? I extracted the Michael out of Asda in a different blogpost, unable as I was to move properly because of the flowers and chocolates on sale. Dropping by the same Asda today and it was much easier to move about. Almost all the flowers had been sold, as had the fancy chocolates. The flowers that hadn’t yet been sold were disappearing from the shop at a rapid rate of knots. Rather than exploiting us, perhaps Asda was just fulfilling our needs?
It’s also good to imagine an army of mums, feet up in their living rooms, stuffed with Sunday lunch, sipping Prosecco, nibbling Belgian chocolates, semi-slumbering in front of a RomCom, all within the bosom of their family. Goodness knows how quickly times passes in these frantic times. Best spend some of it with those closest to you! As Joni Mitchell once sang: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” Spot on, girl.
