Personal Narrative: How My Mom Made Me

One of the main components that made me the person I am today is my mom. It sounds real corny but she is my aspiration in life and my hope to do better. Growing up and living in a home where your only supporter is your mom makes you want to give her the world. My mother like anybody has her flaws and like anyone else she occasionally does get off my nerves. But I do everything for her. When my mother was growing up, she grew up in complete poverty. She started to work at the age of 5 to make a dollar or two for food. At home she was lucky enough to eat a tortilla with salt on top; while my whole life she has gave me everything I ever wanted. She had gave me more than her budget can afford. One of the biggest highlights of my life where I knew my mom was always going to be there and support me with whatever the future behold us was when I told her I was pregnant. …show more content…
When I told my mother I was pregnant, I recall being scared. I was scared because I knew I had let her down, everything she had worked for, all the verbal and physical abuse she had gone through had gone down the drain. I was heartbroken to see all that hard work go down the drain. I felt as if my whole life was completely thrown away and it just hurted because all I ever wanted to do is make her proud. I still could have but I was scared to even be a mother.. All my life I had visual myself going to college and becoming a psychologist and for a moment I felt I couldn’t do it. I was wrong though, of course my mom had been disappointed but she never stopped supporting me. My son has became as if he was hers and school has been my main priority. The first time I held my son I was scared. It’s funny because throughout my whole pregnancy it never hit me, that I was going to be a mom, then in a matter of seconds I held him and it finally sank in. I am now a mom, and I want to be just as great as