In any case, our untidy family with their untidy rooms are always cleaned up by mother. Our empty promises of the fact that we would clean our mess always are left unfulfilled and the rooms end up being cleaned by my mother.
This may sound all too familiar, but it does make a significant difference between my mother and other people when you know what she has been through. My mother was and still is severally asthmatic as well as other pains which have developed recently. To top it all off, I was also born asthmatic. When you consider this, as well as the service she gives us it really is remarkable.
When I was younger, I was always in and out of hospital almost every other week after suffering from severe asthma attacks. The way my mother handled all of this is to say the least commendable.
My mother is a really strong woman. She has really got nerves of steel. If anyone confronts her, she really does defend in what she believes. We are Muslims, and my mother observes the hijaab (Islamic code of modest dressing). It is with great regret that at times my mother has been verbally abused on account of this dressing, but hardly has there been a time that she has not responded with the best of answers.
The strength of my mother can also be observed from the fact that she has carried heavy boxes when we were moving house. My mother’s doctors observe that the aches and pains that have developed due to the lifting of these boxes.
To this day, my admiration of my mother never ceases because even at this age she is servicing us selflessly and although she does nag at us sometimes, we do the work from time to time, however it is still her that does most of our house chores.
In conclusion, a reader may say that this is a mother-son relationship. Although to some extent it may be, but it extends to much more that. Of course, I love my mother as a son would usually, but my love for my mother extends to much more than that. She was and still is my doctor when I’m ill and my teacher when I don’t know something. She is in all, everything I could ever ask for. I pray to God to give her long and healthy life, and may God reward her for all the services she has provide all of us so selflessly.