As I grew up, every one told me I looked just like my mom. We had the same face, the same hair, the same laugh. I could answer her phone and people would assume she had answered. And as I grew up I tried to change my look so I looked nothing like her. It wasn’t cool to be like your mom growing up. But the older I have gotten the more I have realized that I am proud to not only look like my mom, but act like her too.
My mom taught me more about myself than I ever realized, and she taught me one of the most important lessons I have learned in life. I have flaws, and that’s okay. I’m not perfect, and I don’t have to be. And those flaws I have don’t make me a bad person, they don’t determine who I am. My mom isn’t perfect, far from it. She does things wrong, she gets angry, she tells me how it is. But, she doesn’t pretend she is either. She showed me what it’s like to be real. She laughs at me when I need to be laughed at, and with me when I don’t. She tells me when she thinks I am wrong, and always gives her opinion. She loves me right where I'm at and doesn’t expect any more from me, unless she knows I can give more than I am giving. My mom has the biggest heart I have ever seen. She puts 110% into something she cares about. She taught me that no she wasn’t perfect, but she was still a great person, she was still a great mother. She showed me that a person’s mistakes don’t determine that person’s being. She showed me that I really did want to be just like her when I grow up.
My mom has been my biggest supporter my entire life. From spending hours on elementary school parties to being my cheer teams cheer mom, she has always tried to show me she cares about what I care about. She knew I wasn’t perfect, as hard as I tried to be, and she loved me anyways. No, we don’t always get along like BFF’s, but the older I have gotten the more I have appreciated what she has done for me.
It’s okay to not be perfect at everything, it’s okay to make mistakes in life. It doesn’t determine who I am. She helped me realize that the way you care about others says more about your character than anything else. I am grateful that I got to grow up with such an awesome mom. She might not have taught me how to do my make up or dress the cutest, but she taught me life-long lessons that have shaped who I am as a woman today. And I will remember those lessons far longer than anything else she could have taught me. So, thank you to my wonderful mother, I love her more because she’s not perfect.
