My mom

May 7, 2007, 7:06 am; posted by
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This may seem a bit early for Mothers’ Day, which after all is not until Sunday. But my next piece will not come until after the holiday, and then it will seem a bit like leftovers.

So I just wanted to remember and honor my mom today. My mom has always been really good at giving direction to my life.

When I was in high school, I wanted to play basketball. My mom knew that I was not much of a basketball player (even though she was too nice to say so), and she told me that she really thought I’d like to act in the school play more. Of course, I didn’t want to do that and so I slogged through one miserable season of freshman basketball, but the year after that I was acting in plays and I found my niche.

When I was in college, she thought I would really like to go to seminary. I was wrestling with whether to go to grad school for history or to seminary. She helped me to see that if I was going to spend my life studying, it may as well be studying something I felt was of life-or-death importance.

I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today without my mom, who knew me better than I knew myself as a young person.

How about you? How has your mom shaped your perception of who you are?


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2 Comments to “My mom”

  1. Mrs. Sweet on May 7th, 2007 9:59 am

    Love of acting huh? We so need to get together and make a movie.

  2. Chloe on May 7th, 2007 10:29 am

    My mom never let a day go by without teaching me something, whether it be a traffic rule while driving (even though I was 7 or 8 years old) or the fact that I had to go to college or I would have as hard a life as she had. She never pushed me to go to school, she never did a reward system with grades or anything like that. In fact, if I got all A’s it wasn’t a big deal to her. She expected that. She taught me that the best motivation is actually wanting the thing I’m going for, not the result of what I’m going for. My mom rocks.

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