For one of my school assignments, I had to write about someone who has most influenced me. The writing isn't perfect, so don't judge. :)
My
most influential person so far in my life is my mother. My mother is everything
that I could ever want to be. She is loving, kind, caring, respectful, fun,
creative the list could go on. But something that I have really admired and
that has influenced me a lot is how she treats my dad. She has taught me so
many things, half of the things she doesn’t even know, but because of her
example it has influenced and taught not only me, but my siblings. Her marriage
advice and her experience has influenced me especially in my first 8 months of
being married. She always is thinking of other people and thinking of what
others need. She has taught piano lessons for 30 years and continues to, has a
full time job and was the Relief Society President of our church. That in
itself is a crazy load, not including having a family that she has to care for
and make dinner for. She taught me how to serve, be Christ like and
loving. The women who has barely any
extra time at all, and when she did, it was spent going to things and providing
for her children.
She has been to countless
dance, piano, other sport events just for me, not including my 4 other
siblings. I was on the High school dance team so we had practice every morning
at 5:45. Before I had my license, she was the one to drive me. She was the one
to be up, get me breakfast and get me on my way. She was the one to put my false eyelashes and
makeup on for many performances. She had no idea how to do the stage makeup,
but she found a way and did it amazingly because that is the type of person she
is. She has influenced me to be a good mother in the future and to support your
children in whatever they want to do. Every one of my siblings and I had
different interests, and somehow she was to every event. She showed me that her
family and our religion, were the most important things to her. That impacted
me and influenced me more than anything else. I was not the easiest child,
especially in my teen years and she did nothing but serve and love me. It is
times now, when my husband and I may not see things eye to eye, but I think
about how my mom and I didn’t see eye to eye on everything, but what did she
do, was she served and loved me
unconditionally.
She was the one to teach
me how to love, especially in a committed and serious relationship. I can
always turn to my mom and she has the greatest advice. Marriage isn’t easy, and
you have to work at it every day, so I call her about every day, but she always
has something to help me in things that she has learned through her own
experiences, or things she has read. She is so knowledgeable about
relationships. She has taught me that my husband and I are a team, we need to
treat each other as a team, and play together as a team, not bicker and break
our team up.
Except
for my husband, she has been my rock since I have moved to Missouri. My husband
and I moved out here a week after we got married, and we knew no one. My
husband goes to grad-school, so that takes up a good chunk of his time. So I go to my mom for a lot of things that I
am feeling and she gives me support and comfort. One of the most influential
things she has taught me was I can do anything with the Lords help. I need to
do all that I can, to get guidance. I know that this is a school assignment so
there shouldn’t be much about religion, but my mother most influenced me in
ways of our religion. Of making our religion a part of who we are in everyday
life. When we moved here, we were a minority in regards of religion. She always
sends e-mails saying “You are a light on a hill and you shine girl”. She always
has our best intentions at heart and always wants us to be great.
She has influenced me in being
friendly. She always has a smile, and loves to interact with others. Her friendly
gestures have influenced me here living in Missouri, where I don’t know anyone,
but with a simple smile, that can go a long way. You can ask anyone in our
neighborhood or family members and they can say that they truly love Tracie,
without a doubt and she loves them. She just has that way about her and I hope
to be like that one day.
My
mom had to plan 5 weddings in 4 years. It just happened to be that all of my
siblings and I got married very close to each other. Her life for those 4 years
were wedding, nothing but wedding. She lost sleep over what the tables or the
cake table would look like. It shows how she is so selfless. That is a trait
that not very many people have nowadays. That is something that you have to
work on, but when you do, you can be someone like my mom. She is so
inspirational. After my wedding, we came home for Christmas 6 months later and
she had made a queen size quilt, and had done my scrapbooks from when I was a
baby to my wedding all in that short time. My dad said that when she had extra
time, it was that. She spent countless hours working on things for me and my
siblings.
My siblings now have kids
of their own, and whenever she has a time to be with her grandkids she will. It
has influenced me in showing that hard work pays off. She goes to work all
week, then because of her hard work, she can go to my sibling’s house and play
with the kids for the weekend, then it is back to work. . She was the one to
push all of my siblings and me on piano. She was the one that taught us that if
we want something great to come out of something, we have to put in effort.
This
is one of the ways that she may not have meant to teach me, but it is just
something that has happened. Just a way that her example and her life has influenced
and changed me. Because of her hard work, it has given me a lot of
opportunities to try and do things that I wouldn’t have been able to do before.
I wouldn't have been able to do dance for 2 years, or be in band, be in the
madrigals etc. Her hard work influenced me in more than one way.
The
most important thing that she has influenced me, is how she treats my dad. I
have never seen or heard her raise my voice at him, of course they get in
little arguments here and there like any couple does, but I have never heard
either one of them raise their voice, say mean things about each other. She has
taught me that a wife is someone who loves, cherishes her husband and does
everything in their power to make a marriage happy and successful on their
part.
To
say my mom has influenced me a little bit is an understatement. I have learned
everything I know from her. Her example of love, service and hard work have
shaped who I am and have influenced me beyond measure. I love my mom to the
moon and back and am so grateful for her seeing her potential early, and doing
everything she knew she could do to make mine and my sibling’s life perfect.
I LOVE YOU MOM!!!
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