The perfect mother. What does it take? What does the perfect mother look like? What does she act like? What does she do that makes her so perfect?
I think it took me awhile to realize… perfection is not as simple as it seems. Being a mother, you see yourself reflected in you’re childs eyes. You hold your breath, you reclaim your prayers, and you beg that you’re child is going to feel loved and master life the first time around. Being a mother, you try to save you’re child from everything bad, you try to keep them from pain, you try to teach them all the right things so they dont make the mistakes you once made. Being a mother, you don’t want to see tears streak their face and you give your entire life to fulfilling each and every wish they desire.
Often times, Mothers tend to lose sight of themselves while trying to live the lives of their child with them. Mothers continue through life as the hours fade and the days seem to pass by continuously….struggling to catch their own dreams while guiding and walking their child through life.
I think that mothers are so afraid of letting go too soon, so instead they just never do. No mother expects their child to fall off onto to the wrong path or get into all the wrong things– and when it does happen a mother falls off in the silence of their own sin as they blame themselves for not protecting their child a little bit better. It is a constant struggle. It is a job you cannot quit. It is the one thing that doesn’t ever go away and I have never seen a call of duty that stretches beyond the work of a mother…… Thank you MOM.