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| My Mom - My Hero |
My Mom is a wonderful human-being. Generous, kind, loving, caring and supporting – my mother possesses all these qualities.
She empathizes to people who have less than her. She donates her time and money to the community. She taught me to be compassionate and forgiving. Her life principle is “It’s better to give than to receive” and she truly lives by it.
She takes good care of my sister and me, and including my Dad. Even though my Dad has not done his role of a Father and Husband really well, my Mom still forgives him, welcomes him to the family and takes care of him. She loves her family no matter what.
My mother was always there for me. She loves me unconditionally. Have you ever experienced that feeling when somebody trusts you supports you so much, you have that strength that you could anything? My Mom gave me that courage. She always tells me that “You have a power to do whatever you want. As long as you never give up”. She’s the one that makes me believe there is nothing impossible.
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| Surprise Cave in Vietnam 2012 |
I respect my mother for being kind and generous. I admire her for being strong and independent.
As a Vietnamese woman who was raised to be a traditional housewife, my mother is beyond and above just to be a good wife. She’s the most strong and independent Vietnamese woman I’ve ever known of.
Vietnamese people used to live close to each other. You can easily find a whole family living on a same road or in a same small village. The older Vietnamese generation did not want to move or change, they were scared of new things. My mother broke all those traditions and moved away from the family.
She was the bread-winner of our small family, she raised me and my sister on her own.
She doesn’t expect any help from other people or relatives, even from my Dad. She fixed all the broken furniture in the house, changed the light bulbs and painted the whole house by herself. She is a woman who has to take many roles: Mother – Father, housekeeping – bread winner.
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| Hai Phong 2014 |
Now you know that my mother is not only a wonderful human-being, but also a strong and independent woman. That is not all. She’s smart and understands that knowledge matters to life.
My Mom respects and values education highly.
She finished 4 years in university herself. Way back then, people thought women should not study too much. In my mother’s college course, there were only 10 women and 100 men. She was the only woman to get her degree. That’s why she got married really late at the age of 30. Education has played a major role in her life.
When I finished high school, we had some financial problems. She still tried her best to put me through college. She dealt with a lot of stress and went through various difficulties. The college entrance test in Vietnam is really competitive. I had 3 months to review all the high school knowledge before taking the test. It was stressful for both of us. However, with wise advice, she made me understand how important education is and motivated me to carry on.
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| Malaysia 2014 |
Thanks to her hunger and respect for knowledge, I got my education today. It is a great gift that she has passed on me.
In conclusion, my Mom is truly an amazing person, wonderful Mother, and strong woman by being kind, independent and respectful for knowledge. My mother was always be there for me, through good and bad, through thick and thin, through my trouble in high school, my college and lastly my decision to move to America. She has always had my back. Without her, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. So I would like to end this speech with a quote as tribute to my mom: "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." - Gaspard Mermillod
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| My wedding day |
