Being a Mom

Motherhood is tough!!

It gives us the greatest joys and challenges in life.                                                                        
Being a mom is a choice that we make without realizing all the responsibilities that come along...

I’m not talking about pregnancy, giving birth, lack of sleep, breastfeeding, nappy changing, long sleepless nights holding your sick child, or watching his/her first steps… Although, those are wonderful experiences!!

I’m talking about how being a mom can be the hardest job in the world, the thankless, and the most exhausting endless duty.

I’m not exaggerating if I say that, and believe me I know, I’m a mother of three…
Sometimes we don’t realize how stressful is to worry about every single detail every second of the day…

You wouldn't imagine that one day, your body and heart will be no longer yours, they will belong to them!
Your mother has never taught you this, you've seen her walking around with all of her nerves exposed, scarifying her life for you to grow tall and strong while sacrificing her health or sometimes her dreams to be there for you…

And you don’t understand until you become a mother yourself, and walk through the adventure…

Yes Motherhood is tough, every time you trade your happiness for your child’s, when you choose to love him beyond your capacity, to forgive him when he misbehaves, or embarrasses or betrays you. When he tests your limits, and says mean things to you like “I don’t love you” at his teens.                                                                            

Even when you are so angry that you might even resent him for just few minutes, and then, you immediately feel guilty, and blame yourself for that!                                         
And sometimes when life goes hard on you, when the burden becomes too much to bear, when you are frustrated, You might lose your temper and address all your anxiety and fear towards him, and then you question yourself if you are a good mother!!!

To all the mom’s in the world I say: you are blessed for simply being MOMS, because you’re giving yourself, and you wouldn't trade motherhood for the world.

It’s OK if you lose control sometimes, and make mistakes, you are only humans! Don’t let the guilt consume you if you can’t be super moms.

Well you’re doing just fine.

Being a mother means keep going even when you are exhausted and never giving up on your child and this exorbitant emotional cost that you pay to raise him well, will pay off in heaven…  

At the end we can write hundreds of pages about how motherhood is an outstanding feeling, but how many of us have the courage to admit how scary is to be a mom!

In this special day, my thoughts go especially for those who are single, divorced or simply mothers with no support…With those who are fighting every single day for the sake of their child, I would like to say, you are real heroes…

Happy mother’s day.
Written by Hayat Aoun