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When someone meets my mother, they usually
say that she looks like a strong woman and a very serious person.
She is a housewife, a teacher and an artist in her late forties.
She is a normally built woman of 1,64
meters and she is a little bit broad-shouldered. She does not
have any flab on her body in spite of her age and despite the
fact that she does not practice any exercise. Moreover, she has
a well conserved abdomen, with toned muscles, to the envy of some
friends, and has a smooth skin on her smooth well formed legs.
She has a short, straight chestnut colored
hair with high lights in champagne color, making good camouflage
of some silver hairs. Sometime she complains about her hair because
it is very fine and it is difficult to keep in a good way every
day. She has a flashing youthful gaze with small brown eyes, surrounded
by subtle crow's feet and with really few and thin eyelashes.
Her eyebrows almost disappeared more than thirty years ago, after
she suffered a systemic disease. Now, she has thin permanently
made up eyebrows. The absence of eyebrows and eyelashes makes
my mother frown in order to protect her eyes from the sunlight
and this has drawn two deep vertical lines in the middle of her
wide forehead. Her face is long and thin with an angular nose
and pointed chin. She has a pale skinned face with rosy cheeks
and laugh-lines that are becoming deeper.
She wears thin, medium glasses to correct
a mild myopia and, with the lines on her forehead, they make my
mother look like a very determined person. In fact, she is. Moreover,
her determination is intensified by a sensitive and emotive character
that is easily recognized from the first meeting, due to her mannerisms.
Although sometimes we have little arguments, specially when my
mother believes that she has a good reason and behaves like a
spoilt little child to defend her opinion, I have to say that
I deeply admire my mother and I will tell you why. She has the
ability to make friends without any difficulty. It is just unbelievable!
She can stand in a queue in the bank or at the bus stop and in
five minutes she will certainly be talking with someone, exchanging
opinions and of course phone numbers. She has a fluent conversational
style and a very enthusiastic tone of voice. I also wonder about
her strength of conviction and her endless creativity. She seems
as if she has a solution for everything, and I think this is the
reason why people around her feel confident of themselves and
feel that my mother is a reliable person.
Talking about other aspects of the personality,
we have some similarities. For example, we have a strong feelings
to compromise and be responsible with people. However, we can
be extremely obsessive with our goals in life that for us it is
very easy to be judged as stubborn. We just have to finish the
things that we begin, assuming the risks and the consequences.
May be it is the reason why she is so important to me. It is her
who always encourages me to do the things that I want. It does
not matter that sometimes they look impossible to reach. My mother
makes such big challenges appear so easy.
Since I was a girl, I have always heard
three sentences from my mother: "be resourceful", "trust
in God" (because she is a very religious woman) and "help
yourself and God will help you". And now, that I am far away
from her, I have been very surprised when I look at myself and
I find that I am not only the physical stamp of my mother, but
every day I discover that our temper is very similar. Today I
know that friends and relatives who say "…you have the
face of your mother…" are definitely right. I am just
like my mother. I am just like my friend, Myriam, the " indefatigable
wife", like my father calls her.
Diana Acosta. CAE class
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