To my Inspiration,

You've been in my life since I was born. You held me not a day later, wondering what kind of person I was going to grow into. At this point in your life, your family was not yet created with great plans for the future. You've been above ground for a while now, happily married and living amongst amazing support. I had looked up to you since I first opened my eyes. You provided amazing wisdom and strength to me as I learned to walk and talk. Little did I know that the woman I looked up to had spent the better half of her life up to my birth digging herself up from a hole her adolescence had thrown her into.

Until my 16th birthday, I had the impression of you that you were flawless from the frontline; daughter of a separated family, yet graduated from college, and now working part-time in order to balance work and caring for your two beautiful children and devoted husband. You do nothing but support your family with love. "How can I help? What can I do?" is proudly used in your everyday life. However, as I grew up, you began to see me as an adult. And you expressed in religious triumph that your life was far from perfect.

Without great detail, I learned that you fell under the spell of every high school student wanting to become popular. You treasured materialistic worth rather than spiritual guidance, the complete opposite of your life now. You were simply lost, like all young adults. However, you charged through the pain and suffering of the longest path most wouldn't dare to try. You were able to find yourself and love through God, standing at the top of the mountain you climbed for so many years.

You have to be the strongest person I know for climbing what God put in front of you. Though the devil grabbed you, calling you to the bottom with false promises, you broke free from earthly shackles and ran free to religious awakening. You are the bird who has carried my faith through my struggling times, feeding me when I was weak and flying me to the top when I couldn't bring myself to do it. You are nothing short of a miracle that graced herself in my life.

Thank you for lifting me up when I only dug myself further into the ground. With your own harsh experiences, you were able to help others rather than gloat in self-accomplishment. Your selflessness is an accomplished mission given to you by God himself and your wonderful, gifted life is the reward. I've never met anyone so willing to give with no judgment of their past, for you know what it's like to try and rise again. You have carried your kind and generous heart into the eyes of your children, who see the world as you do now. I can't thank you enough for being in my life with such devotion for the good of others.

With your help and guidance, I can now fly on my own.

I love you.