Today I would like to talk about my mother, who has had a very big influence on my life.
She was born in Arequipa , her father died when she only was ten years old, remaining with her mother, two sisters and a brother. When she finished high school, she decided to study nursing .At the age of 23 she fell in love with my father, they married and had three children including me. When I was five years old they divorced, leaving my brother , sister and myself under the guardianship of my mother.
I do not think that my mother has been the usual mother that one has, since her nursing duties were not allowing her spend a lot of time with us.
Besides being a single mother, she could progress without the help of a husband except the maintenance , she became an independent, determined, and practical person as regard to her home and to her children since if some problem was arising, she saw the means necessary to be able to solve it.
This is one of the ways that she influenced me, because I used to be alone at home the majority of time, so I had to see about my breakfast, wash my clothes, do the dishes, arrange my bedroom, clean and much more. It was in these years in which I became an independent person, thanks to her.
I have realized that one of the most important points, it has been the influence that she has had on me concerns the real life , she always wanted that I saw positive as negative aspects , she did not bring up me with a thought of perfect world, when she had the opportunity, she used to take me to hospitals where she was working, She was telling me the life of the patients, the reason of being hospitalized and much more.
It was very sad, to see especially, homeless children , children with serious diseases and without resources to finance operations, you really does not feel it until you see it.
I remember that she used to bring children of the ladies of the market to home, she was bathing them and was dressing them in clothes that already we did not wear.
despite we were not in a good economic situation, so It was a meaningful gesture from her
Finally, thanks to all the good and bad moments that I spent with her, I consider me as a helpful person .
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