Malaysian Woman Gives Out Flowers Annually In Memory Of Late Mother

While Mother’s Day is a time of celebration for many, it can also be painful for those who have lost their mums.

Whether due to illness or accidents, not all of us have the privilege of spending a long time with our mothers.

Unfortunately, this was the case for one Malaysian woman, who lost her mother to cancer during her schooling years.

Since then, she has turned her loss into an act of kindness by giving out flowers every year in memory of her late mother.

Woman’s gesture for late mother goes viral after man tweets about flowers

Last Sunday (21 May), Twitter user @acapbad posted about spotting a man clad in a traditional Malay outfit giving out free flowers at a shopping mall.

The man’s wife was with him at the time and she received a flower of her own.

While it appeared to be a simple sweet gesture at first, the couple was moved to tears upon realising the flower’s significance.

Attached to the orange gerbera was a piece of paper with a “Happy Mother’s Day” greeting and the following quote, “All the memories come back but, she never does.”

Below that, the person had also written: In loving memory of Norehan. Gone too soon.

At the very bottom of the paper were the hashtags #cancersucks, #cancersucksmy, and #rememberingnorehan, implying that the person had lost their mother to cancer.

The OP went on to share that the flower’s true meaning hit home as his wife lost her father in September last year.

Furthermore, his father-in-law had passed away from cancer as well.

Woman has been giving out flowers for 9 years

The tweet’s virality soon captured the attention of the brains behind the flowers herself, aka Norehan’s daughter.

The woman, Leah, replied to the OP’s tweet saying that this is an activity she does with her friends every year.

They have actually been doing this for the past nine years, which would have been 11 if not for the two years of Covid-19 lockdowns.

She also revealed that she lost her mother at a young age when she was still in school.

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