There are times when we're on FaceTime now, where you are leaving one job just to go to another. Looking back, I cannot think of a time when you didn't work at least two jobs. Now that I'm older and debatably wiser, I now see that what you did wasn't normal and it proves you're not human. Now, for a single parent, in my case a single mother. I am here to tell you that the greatest, most difficult and often unappreciated job is that of a parent. When you hear the word job, what are the images that come to your mind? Please hear and believe me when I say this: when asked who I admire most and who I want to be when I grow up, my answer is you. I am incredibly blessed and among my greatest blessings was you, Mom. To this day, they still support me in all of my decisions and are a part of both my successes and failures. (No offense, dads.) No matter what I have done or said, they never failed to acknowledge the good qualities I possess. When I faced hardships, they were the ones to tell me everything I needed to hear-things that need to be heard from a mother’s perspective. They expressed love to me like a birth mother would do to their child.
No matter how many errors or successes that followed, they still had my back. They were compassionate and provided me the guidance I needed to persevere through my situations. After everything I have been through, these women were not critical. However, the women who supported me most were the ones who didn’t even give birth to me. I have made countless mistakes, stupid decisions, and been selfish on multiple occasions. With that being said, I realized this- Maternity does not determine a motherly relationship unconditional love does. These are the things that most people get from their mothers, and what some get from other figures. The age I’m at right now requires a lot of support, love and encouragement to get by. Stress is almost overbearing while reality gives me slaps in the face daily. I am currently in one of the most important phases of my life that basically dictates my future. Recently, however I have come to a realization about motherly relationships.
I continued wishing women who were important in my life a happy Mother’s Day and let them know how much I appreciated them. I accepted my situation, but I didn’t approve. I was so happy to see that there was a happy family, but as I said earlier- I didn’t have what they had. When I went to my friends’ houses and saw how their mother and them were so close, it tore me up on the inside. Since there was no possible way to obtain this relationship, I beat myself up over it. Mothers who describe their pregnancy say that the bond that develops during pregnancy is one that cannot be felt with anyone else. For the longest time, I believed birth was the true binder between a mother and child. I desperately craved this mother-daughter relationship that couldn’t be broken.
From my father, step-mothers, grandmothers, my friends’ moms or close relatives, I could never find full satisfaction with my situation-especially on Mother’s Day.
Other people, both men and women, assumed a motherly role they didn’t have to take on.
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Though this would become known as their classic line-up, “Just Crazy Love” shows McVie was a talent the whole time. Guitarist Bob Welch would leave the band a year later, and Fleetwood Mac would hire Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a replacement. Her jaunty piano licks and airy vocal delivery pack refreshing energy into the lyrics' tale of love ill-advised love. “Just Crazy Love” shows that McVie was ready for her star turn. But before those fertile years, McVie and Fleetwood Mac would only barely grace the pop charts with their album Mystery to Me. The Christine McVie song “Just Crazy Love” was a precursor of the pop direction that would catapult Fleetwood Mac to international stardom in a few years.