Firdaous Azzari, 17, Azrou.
We all know women who have broken barriers. who have inspired us to try to do the impossible and reach for the stars. While some of these women are famous, we find more right in our own communities who influence us to realize our full potential and lead by their example. I am inclined to believe that finding a person who has a significant impact one’s life may take years before we fully understand the magnitude of that person’s influence, years of taking the little things that person does for granted‌
For me, it took me
seventeen years to realize what an extraordinary influence my mother has been on my life ; my mother who has greatly impacted my life, she has stood beside me through thick and thin. I know that as long as she is her she will stand beside me to love and support me unconditionally as she has done all these years. To tell you the truth, my mother divorced my father when i was 11 years old ; and as we know divorce, is a possible condition in family life, requires many mothers to raise their children alone, and thus find themselves facing many challenges, the most important of which is the raising of children girls or boys in a healthy environment that provides them with balance both psychologically and existentially. My mother is one of them, she found herself facing the burden of supporting our family on one hand, managing our affairs and playing a dual role with us, and finding herself forced to fill the void left by my father in our lives. Apart from that, in order to be able to provide us with housing, food and clothing, she went every night to wash the dishes at parties for a cheap price ; also to pay study fees she deprived herself of everything. And this is one of the most difficult roles my mother has ever faced.
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