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The Legacy Chain
Why our actions matter more than we can imagine
Love in Present Continuous
“Hello mum.”
That was how the call started out, but the words that followed would stir strong emotions in both of us, strong enough to push us to the brink of tears.
While driving home one day and reflecting on my life story, I called my mum to thank her for being a great mum. It isn’t unusual for me to do this, and it wasn’t the first time either. Growing up in a single-mother household as her first child, we were more sibling than parent and child. Long conversations into the night, scrabble game scores in ink on half the blank sheets we had in our house, hearty laughs and those occasional down moments, my mother had raised me with enough love to raise a hundred children.
We weren’t rich by worldly standards. She was catering to three of us on an average civil servant wage, alone. Now that I have two children of mine, it isn’t difficult to imagine how tough it must’ve been. However, what we lacked in material things, we more than made up for in love and laughter. Had there been reality TV in my childhood, our small family would’ve rivaled the Cosbys.
Thinking about all these, and how that love defined me underscored my sense of self-worth, and gave me the…
