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It is the second Sunday of May, which means like every year, it is Mother’s Day.

Like art sculptors, mothers mold and form. Delicately creating a piece of work for the world to enjoy, critique and interact with. The sculpture becomes affected by the world around it, whether it be like the statue of David sitting in an Italian museum, or a statue in the Parthenon with pieces broken off by criminals and wars. The sculptor can only protect their piece of work for so long before they must entrust it to the world and allow it to be displayed on a world stage.

Unlike the artists who created the great statues of the past and present, the idea of motherhood still seems to go underappreciated. This is said loosely only because the great things that mothers accomplish can never be appreciated too much. I think of what it would be like to suddenly realize I was to have a child and that very moment know my life would never be the same. How often do we hear of a mother putting everything on the line for a child. Some mothers who led successful careers put their professional life on hold for their children. Others work dreadfully long hours to ensure their children are taken care of properly.

Good mothers can and do teach us a lot. So many mothers show us what unconditional love is in a world that constantly fights against us. Mothers show leadership and loyalty, putting their children’s well being before their own.

I am taught strength through my mother. I think of how my existence affected her life and how her existence has affected mine (besides the obvious part of bringing me into existence). She was a very young woman when I arrived. My arrival took away the opportunity for her to explore the broad world freely during what is typically a highly impressionable part of an individual’s life. Her everyday devotion to motherhood and hard work then and now, give me the tools and motivation to explore and learn from the world. This is what mother’s do. They put their life on the line for their children and they are never paid enough for it.

Inventors, business people, politicians, artists and other influential people in the world may create and form the future, but the tools they all have come from the sculptors that we are around everyday.

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