I haven’t felt so much love for another person for so long. I love my mom. She said something to me on call today that I always wanted somebody to say to me. That she’ll always be by my side and only I matter (besides our family).
She shared about how she got mad at her own family and her in laws for not acknowledging my good grades back in high school even though all of them congratulated my brothers and gave them money and gifts for merely passing. All I got was nothing. No congratulations. No visits.
It was a very foreign and alienating experience back then. Listening to my friends and classmates ramble and boast about what their family/ relatives did for them after their results.
So I really Appreciate the dept of her love for me, even though that same love suffocates me sometimes.