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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Although,

she did not give up on us. She is the kind of mother who always has time for me and for my brother, it’s because of her that i am who I am who I am today, behind my choices, my character, my values and behind me proudly stands my mother.

All throughout my childhood I have been closer to my mother than I am to my father, she has been an amazing friend to me, but an even better parental figure.

Laying down the rules for me and establishing boundaries when needed. It is because of the love and respect I have for my mother that I am now, cautious of the choice I make. I cherish the approval and fear her disappointment in me. I feel confident that all the lessons he has taught me and the advice she has given me, will continue to shape my standards and values in life.

Moreover, she have been taught me that honesty integrity, hard work and respect should be constituted into daily living, and that to get what we want in life, we have to earn it.

Now that I am tall enough to understand that my mother is able to overcame adversity, and accomplish all that she has, inspires me every day to make myself a better person. I greatly admire her strength and strong will, and I am extremely proud to be her daughter. And in my mother’s words, we only get one chance to live our lives, so it is up to take what we have and move forward in life. Our future is not set in stone ; we create the

path of our own destiny.

As a general rule for me, my mother is a person who impacted my life who can’t be replaced by anyone.

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