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We all need someone to spend our lives with, a person who will look up to us and accept our uniqueness. A gentle touch, a warm embrace, a loving word… is what makes our lives fulfilling.

We meet different kinds of people from all walks of life- children who scavenge for food; families who break up; strangers searching for their way home. All of them are in search for a blissful life, a life spent with eternal happiness.

We all need someone to talk to. Who will listen to our fancy stories and our silly jokes, someone who laughs at us and tickles a funny bone, a person whom we can lean on, who always have a shoulder to cry on. Someone who would pamper us and make us feel secured.

Words of encouragement that inspire us...

We probably think that only a perfect person possesses it all, that only a rich man with all his treasures could experience such blissful living, that only a public servant manifests all these qualities. And that superman, endowed with super powers could make all these possible. But have we ever thought of a person just right in the corner? The person who have been there for us since then on, who have watched over us since birth until we lost our innocence... That someone who brought us into this world is who we first opened our eyes, who first witnessed our first breath, our first cry, our first smile. Thy hands that have pampered us, whose loving touch and kind words molded our being. A person we can always count on, someone who would never leave our side, who sacrificed and took the risks out of love. The one who would make an assurance that "everything will be all right." Through thick and thin, in good times and in bad, will always be there and never hesitates to accept our being "us"- of being the person who we truly are. She's the only person who believes in our capacities and sees the best in us. Our strength when life seems so bitter, our sight when we lose a glimpse of reality, our hope when we almost give up, our faith when nobody tries to believe, our inspiration in achieving our dreams, who completes our being and makes our life worth living...

Thou art an angel sent from above, an instrument of God who made a big difference in each of our lives. Whose unconditional love endures and nurtures forever.

Life would be impossible without thy hands. This world would never be like this without her. A mother's love has it all, that's all we ever need.

"This was the speech I wrote in my English class on mother's day of May 2003. I sent this to my mom who's working in Italy for eight years now. She is my life, my inspiration... I am the person that I am now because of her."