Being a mother offers you something that no other life experience can achieve: to feel something very intensely, and the opposite a millisecond later . There is no trip, job, gift or relationship that gives you these sensations in such a visceral way, and that also includes the perception you have of yourself.
For example, I always believed that I was quite strong; however, I have felt what true strength means when having them : there is nothing that can stop me, if my daughters are in the middle.
Children: the engine and the challenge that moves our lives
Parents feel (and refer to) our children as the engine that moves our lives. However, I believe that if we analyze it carefully, they are also a challenge that makes us need to use all our impetus to carry out this demanding company called motherhood.
Never in my life did I imagine, for example, feeling such absolute fatigue as the one I have had when my daughter beat her personal record in nightly awakenings, and even less did I imagine that even so, I would be able to continue with my work and personal projects at the same time. the way I’ve done it. I do not brag about anything, because this is what the vast majority of mothers who have to do bobbin lace to get to everything do . Only that inner strength is a facet of me that I didn’t know about, and that came at the same time as my babies.
That friend who was asleep has helped me endure thousands of unsolicited advice, deep differences of opinion about parenting with very close relatives, some couple crises and even problems that have nothing to do with motherhood. The way I approached things before becoming a mother has nothing to do with how I do now.
That strength is also reflected in many aspects of the day: you become, without realizing it, someone who can do several things at the same time and also a more resistant person in the face of everything (I just need to look at the screen of my mobile in where I have his photo when I have a problem to recharge and be able to face anything).
That is one of the greatest gifts that motherhood has given me: to feel that there is no obstacle that can stop me when it comes to getting them ahead or making them happy , and it is clear that it is the secondary effect produced by the most unconditional love in the world: from a mother to her children.
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