I believe in Mamas.
What's a Mama? Not a mommy, not a mom but a Mama. Let me tell you about my Mama. My mama is an amazing woman. Strong and confident, she is cool and down to earth. When I was little I did not know that we weren't rich. I thought I was a princess in my own right. The truth is we weren't rich at all; but, my mama sent me to Catholic school. I always had the whitest shirts in my class and I had a new pair of shoes at the beginning of every school year. My mama told me you will be something, you will get good grades and you will succeed and I did because my mama told me to. One day I came home from school crying because the kids in my class felt it necessary to call me names. That particular day I was “four eyes” and “white girl” because I spoke differently than all the other kids and I wore glasses at a very young age. I told my Mama and she said “take your glasses off, Can you see”? I replied “no mama” “then that's what you tell those kids. And don't you worry about the way you speak. You do not speak differently you speak properly and I taught you that way for a reason”. I did not understand all the things my mama did and said that day; but, I felt better and that was all that was important to me at the time. I later learned that my Mama was paving the way for me to become a strong independent woman just like her. When she left me at college and I watched her pull away, I knew that I would be alright. I knew that I would be successful and I would be something and this was only the beginning. I thank my Mama for that. One day I will be a Mama. I too will have a little girl and she will come home crying because someone will have called her four eyes. If she is anything like me her eyesight will be the cause of many tear drops; but I will tell her the same thing my mama told me and I will hold her until she knows how much I love her. So what is a Mama? It is who I am at the core of my being. It is who I hope my daughter will be. It is that woman in your life biological or not who will move hell and earth to give you whatever it is that you need. That's why I believe in Mamas.
Ariel Johnson
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