I come from a family that is very close. And when I say family, I am almost always talking about my mother's side. I have never been close to my dad or his part of the family so I never really developed any special relationship with any of them. So, in my family I have my mom and her 2 sisters. And from them I have me and my cousin Janee being the girls of our generation. My cousin is a major influence and inspiration in my life. She was the first one to go to college after high school and now has gone on to receive her masters, while raising a family with a new born being added recently.
I feel like she has all of her priorities in line. I look at her life and want nothing more than to live mine in a similar way. She finished college before she married, she got a job as a teacher with her degree, she had her first child then she pursued her masters and had her second child.
With me she has helped tremendously. Several nights I would go to her house and she would stay up with me and help me with my college algebra, while giving her daughter a bath, and cooking dinner before her husband came home from work. She was never more than a phone call away when I needed her, no matter what I needed help with.
I want to graduate college and find a great career that I enjoy going to every day. I want to get married after I walk across the stage and I want to have my children in a timely fashion. I look at her life and see it as a guideline for how I should walk my path.
I want to take images of her in her daily life, juggling her kids, the house work, and studying for her masters. I want to have a picture of me and her sitting at her counter in front of a computer with a notebook and textbook in front of us scratching our heads, glasses at the end of my nose and chewing on my pencil while she helps me figure out variables. I want to capture how she tells her oldest to clean up her room while changing the baby's diaper.
The basis of it is that she is my hero.
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