Happy Mother's Day

It's Mother's Day and, across the universe, people with no sense of originality are saying their mothers are the best moms in the world.

There's nothing wrong about that sentiment though. If you're the recipient, it's really sweet but, if you look at it more closely, what's their basis of comparison for saying that you're the best mother ever in the entire world? All of us only have one biological mother and statistics tell you that any assumption based on a sample field that small has an error margin close to infinity.

If you want to say that you have the best mother in the world, don't. You're kidding yourself. You cannot possibly be a judge of things like this.

What's my suggestion then? Well, how about telling her she may not be the best mother in the world but she was and is the best mother for you. Come to think of it, in this case, you really cannot say anything definitive except that. Well, that's besides saying you love her.

But I guess people love to say the former regardless of the epistemological inadequacy. Despite being a cliche, saying that you have the best mom in the world really does tug at the heart.