It’s very common for girls to be close to their mothers. However, that is an understatement for my Mom and I. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for my mom. She gets me. She knows what I am thinking before I am even thinking it. My mom is one of the very, very few people that completely understand me.
All through high school my mom was always there for me. Through sports and clubs, tryouts and auditions, successes and failures. My mom always did her best to be involved and show me how much she cared. She has always been my number one supporter and my rock. You always knew when my mom was there in support of me, whether that meant yelling at the reff for calling my “pancake” no good or telling some other parent that they better “watch the way they talk about her daughter.” My mom always fought for me and with me.
Just like every other mother daughter relationship we had our lows. I get my stubborn hard headed-ness from my mom, and believe me that came out in every single one of our arguments. But, truth be told they never really lasted that long because one of us always had something to tell the other. She was always my shoulder to cry on no matter the circumstance.
Growing up with such a strong, loving, selfless, and independent mom I learned a lot. I learned that you shouldn’t “need” a man to do anything for you. That doesn’t mean that a man can’t do something for you but you should never be completely reliant on another human--you have to know how to do things for yourself. Family is important. The relationships that you make with the people you love and how you treat them (and vise versa) is a very important ingredient to your happiness throughout life. Love and compassion are two pieces to a healthy relationship and my mom possess both of them. My mom would give anything to help someone else before herself. She is always giving without expecting to receive. I hope one day someone can feel that way about me.
Everyone always says that my mom and I look a lot alike. “Oh I thought you were sisters” is a very common line I hear. However my goal is for someday someone to tell me that I remind them a lot of my mom, not just in the appearance aspect but also in the way I sacrifice and treat others. I hope that some day someone will look at me and say that I learned to mother like my mother and I learned to be kind and giving the way that she is.
Growing up you’re always asked what you want to be when you get older. The answer always came so easy for me. I always wanted to be a mommy, like my mommy was to me. She is my mom, my hero and, my best friend. What more could you ever really ask for in a person?
