For My Mother
Quote appearing on print:
"Though I have not told you enough, I am telling you now.
Through my eyes, this is the story of my love and appreciation
thanking you for all you do and have done for me. Your sacrifices
to make me a better person and athlete have never gone unrecognized.
My remembrances of you: "I looked out the front window and saw
you, alone, shopping bag cradled in your arms. In one hour, I
will race out of the house to go to my game, and you will watch
my departure as you always do, out the same front window. But
not before you had warmed a plate for me, as I never left the
house hungry. Yet I always left the house hungry. Hungry for the
chance to compete another day. Hungry to be better than my opponent.
Hungry to win this game. It is because you watch me out that window,
because you pray for me as I walk down the street, because your
sideline seats are never empty, and because I know there is no
real strength in this world save for that which is instilled or
inspired by you. Were you not here, I would not be complete. It
is in these moments when I see you, Mother: When there is a home
in this world I know, where the image of your beautiful smile
in that window is once again etched inside a memory that will
never forget. When I look in your eyes, I see that you understand
the spirit inside me that needs to compete. So late at night,
when I lie awake in bed, realizing your unconditional love for
me as I hear your footsteps walking away from my bedroom door,
I know I am not the sole host to a fighting heart. We fight together
to survive, you and I, mother and child. You are the cornerstone
holding this family together." Give me the ball! This game is
For My Mother."
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