Nanay and her life had made me realise a lot of things. We all have people who have made a difference in our lives one way or another. There are people out there like my mother who we would like to cherish on Mother’s Day but they need not be who we traditionally classify as a “mother.” There are fathers out there who did what is usually considered as a “motherly task.” There are those people who may not be related to us by blood, but they go out of their way to support us all along. What a mother does and could do transcends far beyond mere gender definitions and other customary demarcation lines. We could and should always learn a lesson or two.

This is my third blog. As yesterday was mother’s day, I thought it is but fitting to remember my Nanay (my mother) and the memories I had of her and how such relates to the HR field.