My Hero

My hero is my mother. I know that sounds extremely cheesy but she has had the greatest positive impact in my life to this day. Growing up my mother made sure that we were taken care of and lived in a comfortable lifestyle. That does not mean that her life was comfortable and easy, and I can tell you from the stories she has shared that she is a survivor in the most basic terms. I admire her strength and hope one day that I can be as amazing of a person as she is and will be as a grandmother one day.

My mother grew up in Seal Beach, CA; a California girl just like me with a mother and father that worked hard and lived a nice comfortable life. Her father (my grandfather) traveled all over the world for government business and has often told us about his crazy adventures as well as trips that they went on together. Her mother (my grandmother) was a caring mother to her three children but also a hard worker when in the workforce. With her parents being such great supporters and role models my mother decided to follow in their foot steps and join the workforce. To this day she is widely known within the companies she works for as being one of the most progressive and hardest workers often achieving high success and respect from her co-workers and management. I hope to one day be as respected in my field as she is in hers.

My mother is my role model in another sense in that she is a survivor. She meet my father during high school and decided that after one semester of college it was not the life she wanted and came back to marry a man back home. This was not what my grandparents wanted for their daughter as they saw a bright future with a college degree. After the marriage my mother gave birth to me as well as my younger sister, both events extremely joyful. However, that time was short lived as my mother was prideful in her work and wanted to continue working against my father's wishes. This lead to a very painful time that broke our family. A few years later she remarried a wonderful man that has been an amazing influence in my life as well as made my mother happy again. After all these events in her life my mother has remained focused and strong in creating a happy home an comfortable life for herself as well as her children and for that reason she is my role model and hero.