My Mother Never...

My mother never understood her real potential. She could have been many different things professionally. She could have been a great teacher at any level of education, elementary, high school or college. My mother could have been an excellent journalist; she could have been a business woman. My mother could have been a doctor; my mother could have been a scientist.

However, my mother never dreamed of becoming a professional in any of those fields. Why...? Because my mother was born at time, and in a place, where people didn't dream of those kind of dreams, specially for little girls. My mother only went to grade school, and even that was limited; but in the short time that she was in school, she did extremely well in language and in math.

My mother had all the potential to excel in any of these professions that I mentioned. My mother (she's in her 70s now) has always had a great mind and an amazing memory that is still very impressive. My mother, with very little effort, memorizes important dates, details of events, many telephone numbers, etc. She remembers details and dates of events that happened over her lifetime.  

My mother's dream as a young girl was to grow up, find Mr. Right, and get married; and that she did, she married my father. And my father was definitely Mr. Right for her, he was a good man, was hardworking and he was a very handsome man. I once described my father as being "extremely handsome" and of having "charisma that could choke a horse." Too bad I did not take after my father--but neither did any of my brothers. My father passed away just a couple of months ago.