Mothers are believed to be the softest and kindest species, always concerned with every nitty gritty information that gets to them. Mothers are like actress with split personalities of motherhood and every other hood. One day she's a therapist, the other she's a tourist, walking down the aisles of our dreams. Mothers are always bothered and to a great extent, my mother is a perfect paradigm of such wonderful candid traits.
Her name is Mrs Benedeth Egwu, but we chose to call her 'original mama'. She's a mother of nine children and a grandmother to four grandchildren. Besides having this numbers of children, she's a mother to all. I Have never met such a unique and amazing mother like her. She has made so much impact to the people around her both the young and the old. Our house is referred to as 'camp ground' because everybody visits the house regularly. 'Mma unege' as she is being called by her customers is a business woman who is into selling of foodstuffs. She also owns a restaurant, but sometimes I feel eating in her restaurant is free, because she most times don't charge for the food. She's a paragon of beauty an Amazon to behold.
Her zest for the gospel is beyond human imagination, she prays and fast for us and also ensure we pray for ourselves. Remember growing up and having that early morning devotion in the house, she will teach us the word of God until we started working the word. She never stops, even though those times we took it as punishment. Her giving and sponsoring of the gospel is amazing. She can never stop giving. Her passion for giving is contagious, and you can see that she came this far because she gave.
Mama original best food is oha and melon soup. She will prepare this food with pounded yam and ask us to go take our portion. I remember vividly lining up in the kitchen to get our food. She's never a stingy woman. Whatsoever she prepares, large crowd will flood our house to eat and after every meal, everyone will hail her loudly"mma unege", you could see those smiles on her face.
My mother's favorite hobby is worrying, she worries about every single bit of plight that may never happen to her children, she worries about virtually everything that takes place in the universe. For instance, when I go jogging with my friends, while she is in the kitchen or perhaps washing the dishes, she's gonna spend a whole lot of time in that singular activity worrying about the wellbeing of her daughter . Like"what if a truck get to hit my girl, or what if she sustains an injury. And immediately she begins to call and ask you to return back home. She worries alot until worrying becomes a viral situation in science known as OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, but I choose to call it LOVE. I see love as a living thing that grows, mothers love are fathomless, boundless and indescribable. No matter how old you get, mothers still see you as that little baby that scrawl and cried around the house at age two, that little girl that bath naked outside the compound, that young girl she saw growing up into a beautiful young lady. How she guided you in every step of the way.
While growing up, I never liked my mum because of the way she treated me, she denied me of those pleasures I wanted, she only gave me what i needed not what i wanted. And also scolded me in every little thing I did wrong. At some point, I thought I was a maid they just picked somewhere. So anytime she hit me with the cane, I will always tell her to take me back to my parents. But I never knew she was grooming, nurturing and training me to become that responsible, dependable, Godfearing, smart and intelligent lady.
That's why I say "mothers are like wine, the older the get, the better they taste".
