I do things to make my mom proud. She has done so many things for me by taking care of me as a single mother. She fed me, she gave me shelter, she thought me how to write, and she is the first one to ever show me what true love is. You can say I am sort of a momma's boy, but I take pride in that. There are many sons out there who's role model is there dad, I on the other hand took the other route. To return that favor to her I gave her all my report cards with straight A's, bring back a medal from the academic decathlon competition, clean up the house for her, and of course love her back. But as my senior year in highschool was about to end, I chose to leave her because I felt like in order to make my mom proud and even repay her back in the countless things she has done for me I have to go to college. Going to UCLA of course made my mom proud as she wears UCLA shirts to work and shows it off but what she doesn't know is that in my dorm everyday I dedicate every single minute of studying to her. I study day and night, weekdays and weekends, to be ready for dental school so one day I will be able to support her all by myself. This may sound "cliche" to say that the things I do is to make my mom proud, but I feel like that this is only the most important thing in life that matters to me. I know my mom feels lonely and sad when I am here on campus, but it will be worth the wait for her as I come back with a career that she has always dreamed of being. That's because before she came here to the United States, she pursued dentistry in the phillipines but was unable to finish because her parents brought her here. Thats why I do the things I do, because I want to make her proud by being her reality of her dreams.
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