Post #301 For Ma

This is for you, the most beautiful woman in the world.
I wouldn't want to know what life would be like without you as my guide and spirit and deep-rooted strength. There's something I've heard before about the people who have the biggest hearts and it's that they have been through the utmost pain and hurt.

We spend our whole life living out the combination of our parents.
I've recently learned that the things our parents long to complete are almost an obligation for us. Some of our parents came specifically to this country for the fulfillment of those dreams. And as my mom says to my forgetful younger brother, 'you should kiss the ground I walk on. I gave you BIRTH.'

Yet we all give our parents a hard time and for what? Usually to get our way or prove a point, but for some - yes, those brats - it's just for spite.. And we think our parents don't know anything about us.

We may think this because we don't tell them anything.
What do you tell your parents about yourself? Sure, they watch you grow up but when they ask you where you've been and who you have been hanging out with, do you tell them? Do you let your parents into a little or a big part of your world? This has a lot to do with the strength and power of your relationship. And because we literally came from our parents the potential strength of our bonds is intense.

Today is my ma's birthday. She'd rather you not know.
She is the most incredible human being because her parents are both in their own ways, amazing. I'm just so thankful to be able to call myself part of them. Birthdays are one of my favourite things because well, it's another year we've lived! Another year of memories (or what we can remember), and another year of wisdom too. But of course the older we get and the older our children get the more evidence we see that, we're getting older.

And isn't it a good thing? To say, I've lived and lived and I'm still living. Maybe it's just hard to accept mortality. It's not even a word we often use. Here's a little not-so-secret thing: we're never really gone, we never totally leave. Mom knows this better than anyone.

And because of you, my wonderful mother, my life is.

Thank You, forever,

Your Daughter