When I look in the mirror, I see that I am your reflection. I know that I manifested from you and your experiences. I wondered growing up on what were your experiences. I wondered because I knew your experiences made you strong. Your experiences tested your strength to surpass all things. Do you remember your younger self?
I wondered what you went through in your younger self. The obstacles that you went through. When you knew what was right for you, the strength you had to go for it. I wondered your perseverance. I wondered your journey when everyone told you "NO". How did you go for it anyways? Do you remember your younger self?
When I see you, I light up because I only pray to be half of you one day. I want to have the strength of a Zimbabwean younger self going to nursing school, moving to the states, having a loving husband, and two children.
One of those children was me. I lived a privilege life and I am an extinction your hard work. Now, I am young adult making life choices. I know that I am only a reflection and have to experience my own life. However, I knew that I was there in your younger self. I was there when you were figuring out yourself. I was here in your unsurity and I was there in your happiness. I was the manifestation in your womb until I came to life. Do you remember your younger self? I became a reflection of you. I never forget it what it means to be a refection of my mother's younger self.
I hold that responsibility with honor.
