Usually when I come home late from a friend’s house or school,, my mom is always up, waiting for me to get home safely. She would open the door for me to go inside and then she’ll ask me if I ate dinner yet and if not she’ll cook something for me. Ever since college started, I’ve been stressed due to the schedule of my classes which causes me to wake up early, the tests and quizzes which I hate, and the essays that are assigned almost every week. One person that I seem to take it out on the most is my mom and I feel extremely guilty for being such a bad daughter. All she does is work work work and here I am adding more stress to her plate by yelling at her. Instead of yelling at her because she’s trying to help me out, I should be thanking her for everything that she’s helped me with for the past 18 years. My mom is someone who I look up to the most because even though she works 6 days a week from morning to night, takes care of not only me and my 2 other sisters but the 7 other people I live with, and a dog, she never complains. My mom‘s life has not been easy but if you look at her it doesn‘t seem like she went through any trouble because she’s always smiling and laughing.
My grandma, my mom‘s mom, has Alzheimer’s disease and since she’s had it for over 10 years now, she doesn’t remember anyone in my family. As sad as I am that my grandma doesn’t know who I am, I can’t imagine how hard it is for my mom to accept the fact that her own mother doesn’t know who she is. One of the reasons that my aunts told me about how my grandma got diagnosed with the disease was because of the overwhelming amount of stress that she had coming to the United States. This scares me because my mom works so much and so hard that she must have a lot of stress. I definitely do not want what happened to my grandma to happen to my mom because I don’t know if I can handle that. I know that my mom will not always be here to guide me throughout life or always be there to help me with problems so I should show her my love and appreciation while she is still here with me. I should be letting my mom know that no matter what happens that I’ll always stay by her side to help her and love her and that I am sorry for not showing my appreciation towards all the troubles that she’s helped me get through.
