My mother and I had a challenging mother, daughter relationship. We had good memories and we had not too great. Just like every parent-child relationship, it's not perfect. Often I am hard on myself, I am hard on myself because I feel like I am not always my best. As a girl who was raised to respect your elders, it is challenging to overcome the obstacles of arguments.

My mother and I took a break after some major challenges, I asked for the break because of arguments. Little did I know, during the time I took my break, she is gone. That is something that I will always live with for my entire life. I just remember hearing the news, I was so numb I did not know how to react. I never wanted to talk about how I feel after her passing for over 13 months. I held in my feelings for those months and am starting to accept her passing and am willing to talk about my time with her.

I hear so many spoiled children out there who bash their mothers and it honestly makes me angry.It makes me angry because I would do anything to bring her back if it was possible. I still hold her to my heart and Mother's Day is not the same.

Mother's Day now is a time of reflection, a time of listening to my heart. It's a time to realize that she is not here on Mother's Day, but I can still cherish and reflect on the time I had with her which was Twenty-Two Years. I got inspired by this article because I felt it was important to raise awareness of the hardship a young individual like me has to go through on Mother's Day.

All the progress I made in life, all the things I learned and discovered in life, and what I got to go back to in life. So please, do me a favor, make the most with your mother on Mother's Day. You only got one mother and make the most with her because you never know when she will pass.