Yellow and Green
When
I look back on my past, I remember the luscious vibrant green forest across the
street from where I lived. The forest was a place for my friends and I to go
and get away from the world, to play and have fun for hours on end. The trees
were towering in size; it was nearly impossible to even climb them. The woods,
as we referred to them as, was a place to have fun and share laughs. The woods
held back a lot of flooding from the creek that ran through them because the
trees were so thick and protected the land from the water. My mom is the woods
and her loving personality has inspired me to be who I am today.
Every typical
teenager makes mistakes, perhaps the most common one is lying to their parents.
Through my “pre-teen” years I was on varsity swimming and the majority of my
friends were older. Throughout this phase of my life, I was scared to tell my
parents who I was going to the movies with and perhaps what boys were going and
friends of mine. I did not want my parents to be “those” parents who had to
meet all my friends before I went someplace. As I grew older, I realized that
parents are only there to help and my mom for instance was not there to
interrogate me about who I was with, she just wanted to make sure I was safe at
all times. When my mom found out about me going to the movies with my friends,
she was upset at first and my dad took my phone away. He thought this was the
best to prevent me from lying. Although this withdrawal from my friends did
make me realize that it is stupid to lie to your parents, it also made me
realize that my mom was not the “bad” person in the situation, although I
wanted to think that at the time. My mom stuck up for me in times like these
and explained to me that she was not going to punish me but she wanted me to be
safe and make good decisions. From this point on, I did not really care if she
wanted to meet my friends or not because I started to be confident that I was
making good decisions and my friends were good influences on me. My friends now
think my mom is awesome, and she is very personable and caring around them.
Thorough this I have learned good morals and beliefs.
One
of the most memorable times in peoples lives is going to college and getting
the primary education you need to get a job that will support the rest of your
life. My mom received an excellent education and has a job that supports our
family. She has been a role model for how hard work and dedication will get you
places in life. This has inspired me to receive the necessary schooling I need
in order to support a future family, but also to look into careers which have
many basic courses required so that if I ever were laid off or such, I would
not have a problem finding another path for work. My mom is always working countless hours to
make sure the “show” runs smoothly at her school and to make sure all the
teachers are on track. Being at a charter school, there are strict guidelines
for the teachers. She recently took on yet another role in the school and
trains teachers to use more professional and useful skills in order to interact
with the kids in a more beneficial way. Even with no time on her hands, my mom
continues to take on more roles in her school, to raise the bar of education
for the children. This hard work ethic my mom portrays inspires me to pursue a
career that helps other people because I see the effects her career has on the
children who attend the school. These children are thankful for the work that
the leaders have put in and would have totally different lives if people like
my mom did not touch them.
My
childhood with my mom would have been extremely different if I was not the only
girl with three brothers. She was always there to play with my and my Barbies
when by brothers were busy playing Legos or being mean to me. I recall one day my brothers were making fun
of me for being a slow runner during kickball or something and the conversation
went something as follows.
“Mom the boys are being mean to me”.
“What did they do?”
“They told me I lost the game for
their team”. I started to cry, because I was only 5 years old at the time.
The conversation is a blur now, but
I do recall my mom taking away all their toys for the day, which was a big
deal. My brothers told all the neighbors that I was mean and I was piglet and
called me names, just because they couldn't play their Nintendo games for ONE
day. I will never be able to forget the names they called me, because I was an
innocent five-year old girl. My mom continuously stuck up for me and got us to
all play together. Without these experiences, I would not have the outlook on
life as I do now.
I do not know where I would be with out my mom
in my life. Like the woods at my old house, she is a strong, caring and
fun-loving person who continues to touch my life. As I go off to college I have
realized that I would be no where without her in my life and I could not have
accomplished half of what I have done and become who I am today without her characteristics. The colors
yellow and green have reminded me of her throughout the years. Yellow is a sign
of sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. On the other hand, Green is growth, harmony,
freshness, fertility and safety. These aspects describe my mom and who I aspire
to be.
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