An Essay About My Mother's Day In My Life

Self-discipline and overcoming fear is a choice I had to encompass with my daily life as I climbed the ladder to achieve my goal. Although it was a tough decision for me, I became the only educated person in my family out of five children. I grew up as a child without a silver spoon; we were not financially stable. I lived in a place where I had to trek 10 miles to attend the only school. A school where I dared not look straight into my teacher’s eyes and share my opinion. I grew up in a neighborhood where a child’s self-worth was demoralized; I was never allowed to showcase what I can do. For better understanding, it was when I came to developed countries that I started hearing parents saying I love you to the children. Not to blame anyone at this point, they were ignorant about embracing their children. I dropped out of school when my mother died to fend for my younger siblings.

On one particular Mother’s Day, I remembered what my mother said a day before her demise. She said, for you to change our predicament, you must be educated; she went further to say she could not take care of us because her past generation never went to school. The thought was popping up on my mind on that Mother’s Day. Instantly, something inside of me shifted, I could not concentrate again, I went to my uncle for financial help

According to my Psychopharmacology instructor, in the human brain, there is a chemical called dopamine and serotonin binding to neurotransmitter which determines our happiness, gratitude, and motivation. In order words, negative thought can be changed to positive thinking based on the amount this chemical produces. These substances enforce us to take action towards achieving our goal. She went further to explain that depression and unhealthy behavior are linked to an absence of serotonin. To bolster my point, change process has a huge connection with the biological