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Genuine Love is a beautiful thing, it is not only saying ‘I love you. Genuine Love is goes beyond material things. Love is practical and not abstract.
I believe if one love you genuinely, he will always there to help in every aspect of life.
Though, if one offended the one he/she loves, such one will correct offender in love and that is my mother. I thought as I have grown up now, my mother will not correct me again but she's always dear for me.
In Africa, parents deal with their children very well, some parents used cane to correct their children. My mother never used cane or anything to deal with me since I was born. She's very meek and sincere; she doesn't like trouble or problems.
She knows the best time to talk to her children: There was a day I went out with my friends, I came back 8:00 pm. I knew if it was my father, he would have scolded me.

When she knew that I'm in my room, she came with my food. She gave me the food and allowed me to finish eating. After I finished eating, she told different kind of stories of friends. After she finished her stories, she said, “my son, choose your friends wisely! Friends can make you rich and wealthy, friends can make one to go to jail but That's not your portion; influence of friends can be positive or negative. I have seen heard a friend lied against his friend that they connived together to steal and both were sent to prison. Think about a friend that you go out with till 8 -11 pm; you need to think whether is a good friend or not. For me I can't be going out with someone that is not responsible, and a responsible child doesn't work in the night.”

Why she was talking to me, I knew she was talking to my friends indirectly. She doesn't want him to be my friend because we used to be together in the evening. She did investigation about my friend and realized that he was into dirty things. She didn't tell me that my friend was a bad friend but always talking to me to make a good friend.

At that stage of my life, my mother was one of the person I trusted the most. She never lie to me even up till now. I knew that my mother gave seen something about the guy I called my friend, and I knew my mother cannot deceive me.
My mother knew what she could do to stop me from something. That was how I stopped to be a friend of him.

MY MOTHER IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IS ALWAYS WITH ME IN ANY CONDITION
Several times I was ill when I was a child, my mother was the only one that was with me in hospital and my room after discharged from hospital. I could remember the day she said, “I will not eat until you eat," She checked up on me at least twice in a night. Sometimes, whenever I heard someone opening my door, I pretended as if I sleep. Most of the time I pretended as if I sleep, I saw my mother checking up on me and covered me with blanket.
When my father died and I was living with my sibling in another state, she came to visit me. She called my brother everyday just to check up on me. Each time she called my brother, she said “I was to speak to you junior brother"; She could speak with me for 30 minutes. My mother sent me money while I was living with my sibling in the city to buy clothes and shoes.
The day she heard from my brother that I was sick, she traveled to the city the second day; she was with me until I was healed.

When I was in higher institution, she checked up on me almost every month. She prepared a soup, brought it for me; and while going back, she gave me enough money. The advice she used to give me was “make a friend with people that know the reason they are in the school, people that have plans for their lives. People that are intentional about their life and academic; not people that doesn't know what they are doing. Their are students that have spent more than 5 years in the school, yet they did not graduate.”

I knew my mother can never deceive and I knew her words was 100% true. I was making used of every single word she spoke to me, and that was how my life was designed towards pursuing good things in life. If not my mother, I would have fell victim of students that came to me. One of the students was called Florin, we were in the same department, and he was a smoker. He used marijuana to cook beans, and when I ate it, I slept for 12 hours. If I knew that marijuana was inside the cooked beans, I wouldn't have eaten it. That was how I stopped going to his house.
If not the words that I heard from my mother, I would have smoked when he persuaded me. I refused to smoke because of the words I heard from my mother.

I admire my mother so much! Most of the things she told me about life are reality today. I learned consistent, tolerance, perseverance, meekness and love from her. Those virtues are weapons for me today.
Each time I woke up, praying to God about my life, my mother is the next. The impact of my mother upon my life is too huge and I cannot quantify it.

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