“Hug Your Mother” Is the Most Valuable Life Lesson on Earth

An 80-year-long Harvard study seems to agree with the same

Neeramitra Reddy
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3 min readFeb 25, 2023

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Mothers are batsh*t crazy.

While one wrestled a black bear to save her daughter, another leaped from a second-floor inferno clutching her baby!

My mother’s the reigning champ, though.

Single-handedly, she raised us two little cubs in a new city — navigating an unfamiliar language, fending off predatory men, and avoiding bad company.

How she stayed sane in those early years is beyond me.

Such is the power of a mother’s love — drives her to tear down mountains for her kids.

The least she deserves is a daily hug — if not a thousand.

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Drowning in “important” Zoom calls and “urgent” deadlines, we’ve forgotten what’s actually essential and urgent.

The woman who bore you for 9 months. The care that nursed you for 9 years. The love that’s as unconditional as humanly possible.

The gift that keeps on giving.

This “gift” needn’t be your biological mother — it can be a foster mom, a kindly aunt, or your…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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