In My Life - old

there are some mommies my own heart has chosen to be mine along the years and around the places where i've been. they are the sweetest women that cross my life and take me as their own daughter, and for that i love them so much.

but there's also that one and only, that the Father in Heaven and Mother Earth have chosen to shelter me in her womb during the first breaths of my life, and the one that has, for the past 24 1/2 years been sheltering me in her arms.

if you ask me to talk about my mom, i will tell you that is a really difficult task. i've had my share of disagreements with mom and still it seems we can't get enought of fighting with each other. sometimes i think that's what mothers and daughters do.

and sometimes i hear some friends of mine complaining about their mothers too. usually teenagers do that a lot. "my mom doesn't understand me!!!" believe me, sweetheart, she does. "my mom doesn't know what it feels like!!!" again i say: she does!
i used to think like that myself until one day i had some sort of glympse of the universe and realized how unfair i had been with mom all along. and i realized that the times she didn't really do the right thing, she was only trying to do what she thought would be best.

parents don't have a prep school before we come in, so they're learning as much as we are. and one thing they will never learn is that sometimes their children have to suffer a little too, and there's nothing they can do to take away that pain.

that's a bit how my mom is. she has done many wrongs in my life trying to make it right, but just because she didn't want to see me crying. or because she was trying to give a better life - or what she thought would be a better life for me.

and even though we argue a lot, even though i sometimes need to work on my politeness when addressing to her, and despite being 4,000 km away (actually i usually say that's how our relationship works best: at distance), i can't deny i feel her very close to me all the time. and although there were moments in my life when i thought we were nothing alike, today i feel we are just about the same - but we came in different versions.

but although i feel we have a HUGE bond, it's also sad to admit i don't tell her how much i love her and how important she is to me enough. but this is something i'm trying to change...

to the daughters and sons who are reading me, never forget to tell your mom how much you love them.
to all the mothers around the globe: hope you have a wonderful day and hope you can spend this day with your children, always.

never forget you couldn't be elsewhere, if it wasn't for her.