By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá/Copyright
Illustration: Google Images
May 5/2011
May 5/2011
Mothers of all times, ages,
nationalities, means and professions, must have a curriculum vita that defies Quantum physics.
Mother is a sort of multinational that deals with all
fronts. She has the ability to both divide and multiply her self, and to be at
two places at the same time. Pure Quantum physics. Mother may go out to work or stay at home. What she cannot do is to
lack a Resume of her capability to
handle successfully all fields it includes, as follows:
·
Teacher Assistant: Homework, maps, science lab that does not fit in the
school bus, math’s book sold out, King Lear by heart! meeting in school at
five, Periodic table!, gym uniform left at home run to school, and that one
thing that they always need to take school on Monday and remember about Sunday
night.
· Organizational Psychology: kids, husband, mother, mother-in-law, husband’s
family, own family, dog, neighbours, the school bus driver, the maid, and there
do exist some that loose their minds and add to the scene a secretary or a
messenger.
·
Health and Marketing. Nutritive food, well cooked, tennis, piano or guitar
lessons, broken leg, fever not at two o’clock in the afternoon but at two
o’clock of the morning, baby teeth, acne, menstrual pains, constipation and all
sort of accidents.
·
Local Repairs: Pick up the iron, find bath humidity, wash the
carpet again, who let the dog in with wet feet!?, call an electrician, find out
how they manage to brake the washer machine, fix the bike, and the foot-ball,
and water the plants.
·
Events. Management and promotion: party for twenty, first communion with the family,
forty, celebrations of coming on age, graduation and marriage, annual birthday
per capita, send invitations, confirm assistance, god forbid I forget to call
my mother-in-law, tea with friends, and husband’s dinner. The latter, however,
has two different applications that, nevertheless, have in common that both
must be delicious and leave him satisfied.
·
Accounting and Finances. Budget for food, shoos for this one, drugs of that
one, daughter’s graduation dress, Friday’s birthday present, tomorrows party,
local repairs, and the flat wire.
· Maintenance. Manicure, hair done, dentist appointment, pick up
mammography, try think doing something about cellulites, fix tonight’s dress,
yoga, gym or sport, that guy did not understand how I wanted my hair, five
minutes to be ready.
Mother’s real expertise,
however, is to do all above in a single day. Multinational Mother serves round the clock. Those that have no means must do exactly
the same without money. Mother has no
excuses. Every day her Resume shines
from dust to dawn.
When the day ends,
somebody resting on the couch asks her: Mom,
would you bring me a glass of water? Mother answers: Do it yourself, love, I am very tired. Next, the entire population
that conforms the family group cries: Tired?
But you have been here all day doing nothing!
Young or old, rich or
poor, black or white, tall or short, healthy or sick, mothers are a
multinational that deals with all fronts. Mother
is sure presence, present attention home delivery. She covers everything
and is everywhere. Pure Quantum physics. / May 5/2011- SYLVIA DAVILA MORALES(c)
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