A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
Interpretation
A mother is essential to our existence and emotional world; her absence is profoundly felt.
This quote emphasizes the pivotal role of a mother in our lives, portraying her as both the physical source of our being and a central figure in our emotional landscape. The analogy of waking up without the sky underscores the depth of loss experienced in her absence, highlighting how integral she is to our perception of the world.
In practice
This quote could be used in a eulogy to honor a mother's memory.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
The idea of a family sitting round the kitchen table and carefully planning their future family size based on the certainty of years to come is a complete fantasy. Back in the real world, jobs are lost, livelihoods taken away, families break apart, partners leave or pass away.
The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.
I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.
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