Ten things I wish my mother had taught me

On the 2nd of January 2012, it will be a decade since my mother’s death. She was a loving, strong (she could spank like a man too) and a great mother. She if one of the few women I know who had a great sense of humour. One of the last things she said to me was a joke; how classic! I learned a lot from my mother, in some ways I learned more from her than I have learned from anyone. Lately I have been thinking about what I wish she had taught me. 1. I wish she had taught me about God. I wish she had told me about the portrait of Jesus in our living room. For years, we had this picture of Jesus on the cross with two angels attending to him. I wish she had told me why he was on that cross. 2. I wish she had taught me that substance abuse was wrong. I wish she had told me that a man is not defined by how many cigarettes he can smoke a day and how many beers he can drink. 3. I wish she had told me why she was so afraid of white people. 4. I wish she had told me that she was not going to be around forever. I wish she had taught me about death and. 5. I wish she had taught me about how to treat women. I wish she had told me that women are complicated and it is not my duty to understand them, but I have to love them. 6. I wish she had told me that it is not okay to hit my sisters, no matter how annoying they are. 7. I wish she had taught me about where babies come from, then other kids would not have laughed at me in 4th Grade when I said they fall from the sky when it hails. 8. I wish she had taught me how to cook, clean and iron my own clothes. I had to learn that the hard way when my sister went to university. 9. I wish she had taught me that it is okay to cry sometimes. 10. I wish she had taught me that it is possible to be happily married.