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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 30, April 2021 Happy

Ramadan

tRANSLATED BY RANA DOSS

Mother's day tray

Prof. nevine mossaad, feps professor of political science
Just like everything else in life, the gift of Mother's Day was subject choose between a tray suitable for cooking pizza and another
to the logic of development, and this development was linked to suitable for making biscuits! When our friend tried to explain
many things, such as to the economic situation and the rise in this strange evolution, she said that her children were affected
prices, therefore what could be bought in one year can no longer be by the division of labor between men and women, but this
bought in another. The gift was also related to the issue of need, and explanation did not last for long, as she had previously
from here, if the purpose of the gift was to fill the deficiencies, it received from them in previous stages personal gifts that
was natural for the gift to differ according to the needs of the crossed biological differences such as books. Maybe the
mother from year to year. The evolution of the gift was also linked children have moved towards conservatism? Despite all the
at times to the nature of the relationship between the children and modern values projected to them? Caution is required, then. Or
their mother; if it became strained for one reason or another before would that be an attempt to make things easier, given that
Mother’s Day, the gift became a mere fulfilment of a duty and
lacked the intimacy that was characteristic of previous years. choosing a rectangular or square tray is much easier than
Yesterday was March 21, Egypt’s official day to celebrate all choosing a painting or neckless? Our friend missed the old
mothers, may God bless them with long lives. To revive this days when children drew hearts and countless red bears for her.
celebration in a different way, let’s follow the journey of Mother's It is likely that this development is related to our friend’s age,
Day gift through the experience of a woman who has gone through but do these children not know that she has been reluctant to
all possible stages of its evolution. enter the kitchen for a long time because of her low blood
pressure? Certainly, they know, so do they mean, then, to help
Our friend received her first Mother’s Day gift from her children her home assistant who is doing the cooking? Even this
when they were in the nursery stage, and it consisted of their own interpretation is not correct because they are already dedicating
drawings. Drawings at this early stage were usually simple lines a suitable gift to her aid.
that fully rotate to make a sun or moon, or turn half a circle to draw
a heart. There is nothing wrong with wavy lines that represented the Finally, our friend reached the last stop, a station where the
letters with which the words “mom” or “I love you” begin. Many of Mother's Day gift has witnessed an amazing development. Her
these papers are still kept by our friend, along with a number of boys entered her with a medium-sized box wrapped in a
other handwritten documents of her children, threatening them from cheerful gift paper and tied with an elegant golden ribbon. This
time to time to leak them, with all the small errors and excessive box cannot have a tray inside it, the dimensions are very
innocence they contain; they then warn her not to reveal their secret different .. Praise be to God, and it cannot contain a dozen of
which made them all laugh. After that, the gift evolved, it was no dishes. They have already presented that with a set of spoons
longer handmade, but became a bought gift. Some pounds deducted
from the children’s monthly allowance along with the necessary and knives last year; is it possible to repeat the same gift? No,
financial support from the father were sufficient to buy a bottle of no, this is unlikely. Mmmmm ... Our friend was confused, and
perfume, a silk scarf, a bouquet of roses, a novel by Na`im Sabri or although she wanted to show some patience in opening the box
a CD by Ali Al-Haggar. The trembling lines also turned into a and taking out the promised gift, she did not succeed in
group of compact letters in which children expressed their great restraining her feelings. The boys, one after the other, printed a
gratitude, they were writing to her also in English. kiss on her forehead: Happy Mother’s Day mum. The red of
anticipation colored her cheeks, and she responded gratefully.
At a later stage, and in mysterious circumstances, a radical She was loosening the golden ribbon, then the colored paper,
development took place in the concept of Mother’s Day gift. curiosity was about to kill her. Inside the big box there were
Mother’s Day gifts have turned into household items, a Tefal tray, a two other smaller boxes. She looked at them and did not
colourful set of tea cups, and a meat grill. The children kept on understand what exactly was inside. She heard one of them
informing the mother that she could exchange the gift for another saying triumphantly: “We brought you two blood pressure
from the store; oh peace! Who would like to devices, so you could reassure yourself before entering the
kitchen.” Although she was very surprised, she laughed and
laughed until her tears flowed!
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