Dear Mia,
If it’s 2 am and you find yourself in a world of complete despair, please don’t turn to strangers on the internet for help, like I once did.
Please climb into bed with me and I will hold you until the demons sleep. If it’s Monday morning and you are too sad to move, I won’t force you. School can wait, work can wait.
I will go buy us ice cream and we will watch your favorite TV shows and I will remind you of your importance. If you feel as if you have no purpose, I will remind you that you were created entirely with love and every pain you feel, I feel too.
When you’re sure you can’t go on anymore, I will tell you that when I was 15, I once searched for peace and happiness. I once wished I had a different life, and the ability to hold on was unbelievably difficult, but five years later, when you were placed in my arms in the delivery room, I realized that you were why I had been holding on. Without realizing it, you saved me. Do you know how amazing that is?
So if you ever feel like you have to search for peace and happiness and you can’t seem to find it, come to me. I will listen. I will understand, and I will encourage you to rise each morning. Beautiful, I refuse to be unaware of your suffering, and just like you saved me, I’ll save you..
Love,
Mom
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Mia’s mom, you made me tear up. You don’t know how many times I would die for a mother like you.
My mother is too selfish and ignorant & she makes me want to die even more in rough times. She knows how I feel but refuses to help, and she very well knows I had helped her through her tough times.
Mia, you should be lucky to have such a supportive mom. She truly appreciates you as her daughter and acknowledges you’re going through some rough times and wants to help you. Let her, and I wish you speedy recovery & best wishes to both.
Same god bless Mia for having mom who makes it better no worse
That is a beautiful post. It truly touched my heart and reminded me of times when I was able to relate my own nightmares to my daughter when she was 15 and cutting. I hope your daughter understands the magnitude of the gift you are willing to give to her.
– peace
Mom does not listen to me. She does not understand, and does not encourage me to rise each morning. She refuses to be aware of my suffering, and leaves me with a feeling of emptiness. In my mid twenties now, she still holds me on strings and deliberately sabatoges my present and future. I have always felt like a lonely orphan, raised with strings and now being cut off and falling into a bottomless pit.
I found myself in a world of complete despair and severe depression, and unfortunately can only turn to the internet for venting and help. It’s a sad life I have. I honestly feel like I have nothing worth living anymore.
I’m sorry you have a mother who treats you like that. I know you love her, and only want her love back. I can’t pretend to know how that feels though. My mother was never mean or cruel. She never could understand what I was going through, but at least she was there to talk too. I hope one day your mother wakes up and understands that she is causing you pain and suffering, and apologizes.
This as awesome.
Nice, I’m glad that my daughter is happy and is making the most of her life. I’m glad too that my son is who is he is. I can go on knowing that, no worries they are fine. It pleases me. They met my cherished bf and I wish it were still so. I find it almost impossible to envisage myself with anyone else. And I can’t make sense of it anyway so may as well just descend further into madness.
What a beautiful message. I will tell you now, it is the small actions that can have the greatest impact. Your daughter is fortunate to have a mother who does not ostracize them. My family only looks at me with disgust and disdain.
some mothers don’t listern some daughters don’t speak some dads don’t hear some sons don’t say
So touching! You’ve inspired me to write a similar letter to my children.
This. Is beautiful. I swear. Thank you for being such a good Mother.
This IS very beautiful..
…I want to be a father so badly
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