Listen to What Mom Says~

Like mother like daughter, that's how I describe my relationship with my mom.

I am the youngest daughter in my family and I feel like I am the closest one to my mom, especially after I decided to study in Auckland.

Some people said that a daughter should be really close to her father, but it doesn't happen to me.

I started to become very close to my mom (in the matter of discussion and sharing) since I was in junior high school age.

I shared my first story about the one I was interested in (a boy). I talked a lot to my mom, asking her advices and trusting what she said. However, it didn't come easy to directly believing my mom's words. Sometimes I just kinda listening her without trying to understand it, and worse ignoring it.

After the matter of time, as I grew up till about in senior high school age, I feel improved in terms of knowledge about life and absolutely formal education (school formal lessons). By then, I talked to my mom more intensely. I didn't only share my love-story, but also about my life in surrounding. Then my mom told me that she was really enjoying our time together and she liked my personality of becoming a good listener and hopefully a good actor of what she has said.

Until it came to the time I decided to leave her to get my higher education. That time I was tested by several kinds of problems regarding my preparation of taking off to NZ. From the difficulties of gaining good marks for the school-requirements, my visa issue and else. It was a really hard time for me. But, what I do, was praying and listening to what my mom said: "if God wants you to go, you will go no matter what difficulties may arise". That quote has been my role model of life until now. Indeed, I arrived safely in Auckland and doing my degree now.

Well, that's not the end of the story, not just yet. I was having a crush with a guy here, recently. I talked to my mom, firstly, just about our friendship, but she kinda knew what's gonna happen next. I didn't even tell her about my feeling yet, but she told me about knowing 'the signal'. She told me to be careful of having a special feeling for this guy, since he's not yet considering having a girlfriend.

I tried to trust my mom, even my heart felt differently. Then I just wanted to prove what my mom has said. Well, it has been proven. How great is God. He gave me such a special-talented mom. 

In turn, sometimes I can understand what my mom's feeling from the way she texted me. Yeah, I can read her words if she wanted to seriously speak about something. I feel really grateful for having such a talent in interpreting someone else's feeling, especially my mom.

What I like about my mom is, she is really a caring person, faithful and trustworthy. She often gives me freedom in deciding what I'm gonna do with my life yet she's still giving advice about the probabilities of how the outcomes will be if I chose a particular choice in life; also asking my responsibility of taking those risks. So, freedom for my mom is not just giving chances for doing whatever I like, but being free in a responsible way. Her knowledge about life is just amazing. Her love is unquestionable. She's my role model, whatever she is, I just love her too much.

I know that nobody's perfect, but at least my mom is better than me in some ways.

Whatever her advice is, I will trust it if I believe that it's true. Even it's not always empirically true, but it is somehow reasonably right. She is my best pal, my lecturer, my super wise woman, my hero, and overall My MOM!! <3

Thanks mom, I love you :)

Super love,

Your daughter.

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