I am Mother ( 0ngoing )
I am a Nigerian. My mother is the strongest
yet most fragile woman I have ever known. She is a mother to me and my siblings and
also plays the same role to her husband,
my father. Marriage, to my mother is a school that no one graduates from. One moment
she is happy, another moment she is sad.
My mother's happy moments are many, sad moments are many too. I have seen her happy
like the day she gave birth to a male child, my only brother, and sad when my
father refused to eat her food because she came home late from work, which happened
most of the time and when my father sent
her packing to her father's house for questioning his authority.
She was raised by her parents to be a good house
wife, so the kids can be well raised and her husband can be properly attended
to. Mother cares for everyone including my father. Our culture and society demands
that she continues to give herself even when
there’s nothing else to give. She must find a way to make things work, and she never gives up. Society expect it of her.
The union between my father and mother is
centered around my father. As a girl, I am continually reminded by everyone
that I must learn all household chores to prepare me to meet the needs of my
husband to be. The woman is prepared all her life to be everything a man wants,
she is taught how to cook, clean, bring up kids, how to take care of her
husband, how to please him in some ways which
my mum told me I was too young to know.