Me & 6 ladies
\nBy Hossam Badrawi
\n6 women & Me
\nBy : Hossam Badrawi
\nIn March, Women’s Month, and Mother’s Day,
\nI am writing about six ladies around me, surely every reader has someone like them in his life.<\/p>\n
The second lady:
\nShe is every one of the mothers of this generation that we keep criticizing, and weeping about our time that has passed and gone for its own sake.
\nI see around me mothers who take care of their homes, provide for their families, work tirelessly morning and evening, spend, raise, converse, study, prepare food, clothes and scribes for each one of her family, go to her
\nchildren\u2019s exercises and private lessons, and do her job at the same time to share in the house
\nexpenses of her family. She is the one who conceives, gives birth, breastfeeds,
\nand stays up nights, day after day, hour after hour. She is herself, the same person that too often gets violated and becomes a victim of a patriarchal society that underestimates her.
\nMothers of this generation are heroes in my opinion. The third lady
\nIs my daughter:<\/p>\n
You may be surprised, dear reader, when I tell you that
\nshe has become a role model for me.
\nIt is usual for the father to be the ideal, and the
\nexception is what I convey to you.
\nAll her life, I call her “My Happy Thoughts” because she is an optimistic,
\nsmiling, beautiful person from inside out .
\nThen, at the age of twenty eight, she developed diabetes, type one . Within few months, the disease took her over and her body
\nbecame completely devoid of the insulin necessary for her life, activity and energy, with all what that disease
\nmeans of the need for an absolute change in the quality of life, continuous treatment, injections , measurements, and
\nchanging the form and quality of food.<\/p>\n
Suddenly my daughter, a mother of three, a wife, and a working woman, needed to reshape her life.<\/p>\n
I saw her, with her youth, knowledge and freshness, enter a stage that she was not prepared for at all ,amid the responsibilities of her life that she takes seriously and with commitment.
\nShe changed her life, with an iron will, and within few years she controlled
\nherself, her mind and body.
\nShe did not stop teaching children, as she is a
\ndistinguished teacher, and she does that while
\naccompanying her
\ndaughters and encouraging them to exercise with her, goes with them to their physical training, and music lessons, shares every moment in their lives, and attends every activity in their school.<\/p>\n
She reads with them and for them, and fills her family’s life with joy and pleasure.
\nI Look at her and say how proud I am , how much I appreciate what she is doing from the moment she starts her day at six in the morning with her daughters , goes to work and practice her activities and her life while carrying the burdens of the evil diabetes, to measure , analyze her blood by herself and control her food standards.<\/p>\n
And because she is a beautiful human being, she
\ndevoted part of her efforts to support children with diabetes and to support their families , teach them to prevent future
\nconsequences of this catastrophic disease .
\nI Look at her and say this is a woman who deserves to be a role model and I believe there r young people like her in society. She neither neglected nor collapsed, but faced
\nchallenge with a smile, and won with will.<\/p>\n
No one around her feels what she is really going through, and she does not let any of her family
\nmembers carry her
\nconcerns, or moments of grief or fear she must have passed or is going through. .
\nWhy am I writing about Dalia ?? !!.
\nI write because everywhere there is a young woman like
\nher. The rate of diabetes in Egypt is very high, and I see its complications in
\npatients every day.<\/p>\n
There are thousands like my daughter and they have to take their lives in their own hands, so that they do not despair, and do not give up, but know that will, knowledge and seriousness makes of them heroes, role models and examples. My daughter.. and every mother like her, you are
\nladies who deserve pride and appreciation.
\nThe fourth lady is my wife: Every mother loves her children, protects them, has compassion , and gives them without waiting for a response , or recognition of a favor, which is what makes the mother a
\nmother. But my wife
\nwrapped her motherhood in friendship with her
\nchildren , without
\npretension or pressure, being present in their lives
\nwith their desire, happiness and longing.<\/p>\n
The first thing that comes to their minds & me
\nincluded after a working day or at the end of an interview or a happy or painful event, is to call her and hear her voice,
\nbecause she is safety without words, a corner of comfort and reassurance without fuss, and the space for freedom for them to express themselves without
\nfear or pain or being judgmental.<\/p>\n
I tell her, as a life witness, that this is her best
\nachievements in life, because she brought them up to be straight, upright in their lives, beautiful in their behavior, and virtuous and rational in their relations with others, all this is a result of her continuous and uninterrupted love that formed their conscience ,
\nand the tenderness in their hearts , which gave both of them the opportunity to show the best in them.<\/p>\n
Then when our
\ngrandchildren came as birds singing in the sky of our lives, giving us a kind and fragrance of happiness that we did not know before, She became this extraordinary grandmother with tenderness,
\nknowledge, presence and
\nresponsibility, without excessive interference, but with sweeping love and abundant feelings that put a new priority in our lives.
\nFrom a father and a
\nhusband who is aware of her role in his life and the lives of his children, who knows that a large part of
\nGod\u2019s grace upon him with the love of his children goes back to a mother who planted in them everything beautiful towards him, and
\ndeepens in their
\nconscience the utmost respect for him .
\nI love , thank , respect and appreciate you .
\nThe fifth lady is my lady friend:
\n\u2026..
\nA wise friend who is close and a great support . Friendship with a woman has a great value, if you know.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you why??
\nIt is true that friendship in general is all about love and peace of mind, but the beauty of friendship with a woman is that there is no blame , and there is no need to justify an act , or an absence.<\/p>\n
Friendship with a woman gets rid of the pressures of marriage, and it is possible to partner in it, and it does not require pleasing your friend, but rather being as you are& who u are.<\/p>\n
In friendship, time is
\nrelative. Years may pass and you meet your friend as if it were yesterday, there is no blame or admonition.
\nIn friendship there is joy without cost, support without price, trust that is not tested in every
\nsnapshot , and love that does not take an exam because it does not need a certificate to prove it.
\nWhoever has a woman as a friend , let him enjoy her friendship and its joy, the comfort and permanence of friendship, and its freedom with purity , and respect for its limits.
\nThe Sixth Lady is my sister:
\nShe is the strongest most supportive sister that conforms of a thousand men.
\nAnd when the sister is affectionate, friend and passionate, as is the case
\nwith my sister, God has blessed me , and given me a temporal bond, add to this , she is also a scholar, brilliant physician who takes care of the mother, brothers, children,
\ngrandchildren and husband. In every moment and in every place.
\nNo one in the family has an influence like hers, nor a presence like her presence. Not just for her little family, but for all of our children and grandchildren.
\nShe is always present, influencing all the time, treating with wisdom and caring with passion . She is the first person that comes to the mind of every mother in the family at the moment of need , or fear for the children. She is pivot of support , not only for the skill of knowledge she has , but for the peace of heart when she is around.
\nThe strange thing is that every child who grows up, she remains being his\/her
\ndoctor , regardless of their height, age and weight.
\nThis is my sister, my first friend and patron through the years.. What a woman worth of a thousand men. The First Lady of the six , This one of the six is the most beloved, the dearest, and closest to my mind, my soul, and my heart… She is my mother.<\/p>\n
How could this mother be this dreamy music in our
\nlives without noise, and without ever asking any of us for anything.<\/p>\n
She is the source of love, affection, joy, and
\ncommitment to all the family.
\nHow could she, without interfering in the affairs of any of us, be an active part in the lives of each of us?
\nHow she made her love for our father, may God have
\nmercy on him, a model for every wife in the family.
\nHow, without request or question, made us gather around her and made it fun, joyful and safe.
\nThis is my beautiful mother, the most beautiful in the family.<\/p>\n
Her elegance, beauty and smile is remarkable.
\nI love you mom\u2026.
\nI love the message of calm and tolerance and
\nacceptance you spread between us without effort.
\nI love the patience and the love that you give,
\nI love that you have
\naccommodated us through the years, with no
\ncomplaints or whines.
\nYou, my mother, were and still is the inspiration of our hearts , the best thing in our lives.
\nAnd every year you are among us,
\naround us, you
\nShine your light sustainably, with a gesture, or even with a smile.<\/p>\n
I am not writing poetry in my mother now, I am only describing what is in her as it is, and my words do not live up to her truth.<\/p>\n
We go on a pilgrimage to her , without invitation , without blame , or reproach for those who are late or who do not come.<\/p>\n
Six examples of super women, in my life and I believe every one can find one of them or more in his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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