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Without my Mother |
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by cassaustin  (November 2007) (rank 108th) |
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Everybody has their favourite childhood memory with their mum. I can remember being about 6 and my mum walking my sister and i to the beach. Once we got there it was so windy that the sand felt like needles on your skin and we didn't want to go in the water anymore, so we turned around and went back home, much to mums annoyance, probably due to the 20 minute walk it took to get there.
As i grew up my mum was my everything, my mother, my best friend, my enemy. She was my whole world. I was really a mummy's girl. She taught me all the valuble lessons that a growing young woman needs. Even thru my very tiresome, exhausting and, i'm sure, downright terrible behaviour, she was my rock. Always trying her best to teach me right from wrong and how an adult should behave. (If you want to be treated as an adult, then act like one)
Back in September 1997, my Mother passed away. She fell asleep and never woke up. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong. No cancer, no heart attack, no diseases. No nothing. So that meant no answers for my sister and I. One doctor refered to her passing as similar to SIDS. She simply forgot to breathe. Still this wasn't comforting at all for us. Even thou she didn't die of something horrible, she was still gone. It took me many years to accept that she was never coming back, and for a long time, i sort of expected her to walk thru the door, or i would see her in the street, someone would be wearing her perfume and i would just burst into tears.
The saying "You dont know what you've got til it's gone" is so true. I wish i had had the opportunity to say goodbye and i would give everything to spend just 1 more day with her, just to hold her and tell her that i love her. To show her my beautiful creation, my son.
So, my advice to you, is treasure every moment you spend with your loved ones because you never know when the last "see ya later" will be. Never turn them away when they want a kiss and a cuddle. Always be there to listen to their stories. Let them know that they are important and respected. Tell them that you care, tell them that you miss them, and tell them that you love them.
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I too have lost my mum and now my father not many days goes by, that something doesn't remind me of them simple things it might be a gesture from one of the kids or a meal a perfume as you say the little things yet so many things. I do not cry with each thing any more but I remember some good things we did and shared something to make me smile. I feel them with me often and know they watch over us. I often think wish I had asked them this or that or think they would know the answer to that something nobody else can answer though. But you often don't think to ask them while their here. Parents never tire of hearing I love you either, as a parent I know that now. Thank you for sharing your story the tears become less but the memories stay I miss both my parents and still talk with them even though they have gone from this earth as we know it.
lol xxxx.
