“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never want to let go of those memories” Haruki Murakami. As Murakami said, there is a memory in my mind that even though it causes pain in my heart to remember, it is something I don’t want to let go. This event in my life occured when I was 5 years old and lasted until I was a teenager. In June 1995, a month before my 5th birthday , I woke up in my bed and found a letter under my pillow; to my surprise, it was a letter from my mother saying she was leaving our home and traveling by land to The United States Of America.
It had been the most difficult day of my life, and even though I was just a little girl, it made a big difference in my life compared with the life of girls my age. It was an important but painful event that taught me how to take care of myself, how to be responsable at an early age, and it showed me that in the most difficult situation I am not alone, God is with me. Even my mom and father can leave me alone, but God is always there for me.
To begin with, the first couple of months after my mom’s departure were really hard for me. She left me under my father’s protection, my father did everything he could do to take good care of me, but his efforts were not enough. There was a hole in my heart that only my mother could fill. Usually, at the age of 5 years old, a girl relies on her mother to do everything, but in my case, at that age I learned to do everything by myself, and as I grew up, I gained the experience to take care of myself . For example, my father hired a person to take care of our house and to cook for us, but she started her work day at 9:00am and finished it at 9:00pm.
The Term Paper on Mother Daughter Relationships Mothers Girls Daughters
The relationship between parents and their children is one of the most basic human interactions. Mothers and daughters provide both physical and emotional care for their young sons and daughters. In the process, parents will instill children with family values and goals, while teaching them the accepted norms and values of society. This is done in hope that parents will one day see their own ...
By the time she arrived to my house every morning, I was already gone to school, and my father had left the house even earlier than me. For this reason, I had to prepare my lunch bag for the day and get dressed by myself, those days were difficult, but they showed me how to take care of myself. At school, at my house or any place I went to, I didn’t have someone who could be putting attention on me, someone to notice how I walked, where I walked, or if there was any hazards where I could stumble and hurt myself as mothers usually do with their children, for these reasons, I can say that growing up without my mother taught me to be very careful and to take care of myself.
In addition, as the years passed by, I learned important values like how to be responsible even though I didn’t have my mom with me to tell me how to do things or when I needed to do them, I have considered myself a responsible person since I was a child. I was in 1st grade when I learned to wake up early in the morning without having a mom that could go to my bed to wake me up. Also, I learned to to do my homework and didn’t need someone to remind me I had homework to do. Responsability was really hard to learn because as a child all I wanted to do was play with my little friends, but inside of me was a little voice that always kept saying I have to do things better everyday to show my mom, when I get to see her again, what I am made of and who I am.
As a matter of fact, the most important lesson I have learned from this episode of my life is to not depend on someone but only depend on God. Although I love my mom with all my heart, and I know she loves me too, God was the only one that never gave up on me. God was the only one who was next to me in the most difficult moment, and he gave me the courage to overcome all the obstacles I have confronted during my life. My mom left me back in El Salvador for 15 years; She didn’t forget about me if we talk about money, she sent money for me to be able to go school and to cover all my physical needs, but that wasn’t all, there were needs more important than money. For example, having her next to me when I felt sad or when I had a pain causing by any kind of sicknesses. Nobody fill these needs only God was there with me when I felt sad or lonely, I was not able to see him but I could feel he was next to me.
The Essay on Mom S Sister Becauseican Life Didn
Because I Can – 10 th grade short story Initiation / quest By Brittany Autumn Bragg Her mom named her BecauseICan when she was born (to constantly remind her she could have a better life) and she proudly lived up to her name, because she could, because she wanted to. BecauseICan? s journey began long before she could remember. Her mother taught her about a better life. Her grandmother taught ...
I would love to have had my mom next to me all my life, but it didn’t happen that way. After 15 years, my mom submited a petition for me to the U.S Immigration Department, and they allowed me to come to this beautiful country. Now I am with my mom, and we are trying to make up for the lost time, and we enjoy being together, but the days without her had a big impact on my life, forming the person I am. The difficult times taught me to be responsible, to take care of myself, and showed me that though my father and mother abandon me, God will receive me.
