Being on your own is a lot like flying a hot air balloon, you can very easily escape into the atmosphere and feel as though you are totally disconnected to the things that once kept you on the ground. While you cannot keep yourself grounded your whole life, you must eventually allow yourself to fly free, you must always remember that you need to touch down occasionally. To refuel, repair and re-chart your course.
Talking to my mom is a lot like that for me. Since I've been at school, we have become so much closer than we used to be, and for that I am so very thankful. My mom is one of the only people in the world that I can admit anything and everything to. Before tonight, it had been a while since I'd spoken to her, and I could already feel myself feeling out in the atmosphere. I spent almost 45 minutes discussing religion with my mom which is not something we often do, but it felt uncannily right tonight. It gave us both a chance to see that even though we come from two different generations, we still have the same views on religion and what it means.
Its nights like tonight that remind me honestly of who I am and what I am doing in my life, a chance for me to remember what was once important to me and even when I'm away that I can still live my life the way I need to. It is comforting to come to the realization that there is someone out there who can understand totally where I am coming from and how that relates to where I'm going. It is in my mother and work and what I see her do everyday that inspires me to be a greater person. My mother truly is my best friend and now that I'm growing up, I'm starting to understand our relationship even more. Who knows, maybe one day a book will come of it? All in All, my mother has always been and shall continue to be my inspiration.
For Christmas my mother gave me a bracelet that reads:
A mother and daughter share an everlasting bond.
I love you mom
