Mother Story Inspires Son

                                                          

Last night I asked my mother about our family history. She told me that it all started in Haiti. As a child, my mother grew up in a single-family household. She never knew her father. Her mother, my grandmother, was raised by her older brother. Her parents died when my grandmother was a few years old.

During the war in Haiti, my grandmother decided to travel to the US to look for a better life for her family. She left my mother and my mother’s sister in the hands of friends for about a year. My grandmother later sent someone to bring my mother and her sister to the US. My mother mentioned that her journey to the US on a boat with hundreds of people, she did not eat. She also mentioned that she believed the cause of her sister death was due to the food that was giving to her.

My mother is a strong woman. I can’t imagine what it was like for her as a child to be in a boat, hungry and with no family.  I can imagine every day her mind was telling her to give up, but her determination and will to make it was stronger.

There are days when I want to give up. There are also days when I feel very alone.  

 

Last night, my mom's story helped me realize that our family members are not quitters. It doesn’t matter what struggles I go through, my determination and will is too powerful to give up even if my mind thinks otherwise.

I love my mother!!!!!