"Contest Entry From Project Department" - theme: Mother

Let's calm down our emotions through the article "MY MOTHER"

Saigon this afternoon it rained again, the sudden afternoon rain seemed to want to erase everything. After work, everyone was rushing back to their home. I suddenly saw the image of a mother picking up her child from school, the umbrella seemed smaller in the pouring afternoon rain, the mother tilted the umbrella to shield her child from getting wet. That image made me feel sad, suddenly I missed my mother terribly.

I grew up in a small countryside with only two seasons, rainy and sunny, with sudden rains like Saigon this afternoon. The small house was located in a quiet garden, surrounded by trees, a peaceful place with the sound of crickets chirping every night. I will never forget the evenings when the electricity went out - the night in the countryside was truly dark, the sky was covered in black, my siblings and I sat huddled on the bed, fearfully clinging to our mother. There were many nights when I woke up with a start and called out in panic: “Mom! Mom!”. The space around me seemed to freeze, I felt lost as if I had landed on a faraway shore, so strange... At that moment, my mother came to me and pulled the blanket back for me and I immediately felt a sense of peace.

After graduating from 12th grade, and leaving my family, I set foot in the city to study, carrying with me so many ambitions and worries from my parents. I understood and tried my best not to disappoint my parents. Every time I had a day off to go home, I returned to the city with a lot of luggage that my mother had painstakingly arranged the night before, such as rice, eggs, soap... Those things seemed so ordinary but they contained so much love from my parents because my parents thought that things made by themselves would be safer and more nutritious. The image of my mother carefully wrapping each egg made my nose sting, I tried to hold back my tears and always appeared strong so that my parents would not worry.

The first days of living independently in the city were truly a big challenge for me, it was very different from where I lived, urban life was always noisy and bustling and full of competition. The feeling of loneliness always surrounded me, I never stopped missing home, missing my mother. I wanted to run back to my mother, back to my family, back to the simple but warm family meals.

Time passed quietly, from a young man from the countryside who was still full of confusion, I now got used to and adapted to the urban life that was always bustling, busy, sometimes making people forget the past. After graduating, I decided to stay in the city to work. The busy rhythm of daily life swept me away, the emotional bond between me and my family became loose and fragile. And today, when the sudden rain made me feel sad and miss my mother so much, that feeling made my heart ache.

On May 12, I wanted to call my mother, wanted to say so many things, wanted to wish her so much, but why couldn't I say anything? The same words of advice and greetings, my mother thought that I was still a child. But do you know, now I'm grown up, so I understand the hardships, the immense love that my mother has for me that nothing can measure. I realized a truth in life, everything changes, except my mother.

On the occasion of Mother's Day, I want to say what I've always kept in my heart "Mom! I'm sorry, I love you so much!". No matter how many worries there are in life, every time I think of my mother, my heart feels strangely peaceful and warm. My mother is an example of diligence, tolerance and sacrifice for her husband and children that I must follow and learn from throughout my life.

Thank you God for giving me a wonderful mother, thank you parents for giving birth to me and raising me to be a good person.

Thank you Project Department for contributing an emotional article about mother. Although the article did not win an award in this contest, the heart and love for Mother are always recognized and engraved.