Looking back to my years on this earth and meeting wonderful people. When I came across this topic, I was really at first confused. Why am I confused? Because I begin to look at the people in my life that I can get a gift this year and of course like everyone, the list was numerous.
But even with the list so numerous, there is someone so special to me that she will always have a high place of priority in my life and that is my mother. If there is anyone first in my life that I will consider giving a gift. And when I am talking about gift, I am not talking about anyhow gift but a reflective gift, it will definitely be my mother.
Looking back to the years, my mother have been everything I need after God which have been Sustaining me till now. She has been my confidant, she has been my support system and I can say it over and over again that this woman on several occasions have sacrificed a lot of things for me to be where I am today.
I begin to think deep. She will be celebrating her birthday this year November 24th and even though we are still in January, I am beginning to think how It really celebrates her so special and makes her understand I am grateful for who she has been to me.
On several occasions when I was down, she have been my pillar of strength, my love, my motivation and resilience. There was a whole lot of attributes I learn from her and one of it is never to give up no matter what comes your way. There are several instances whereby I have seen her face tough situations in every aspect that should have made her to give up.
But no, I kept seeing her going no matter the obstacles and I will say I picked that spirit of resilience from her. There are times I see her praying in the night on my behalf. I have seen her denying her sleep because of my health issues on several occasions. I have seen her sacrifice her money just to send me to school.
Yes I am now a graduate from the higher university with a degree in Civil Engineering and I must say without her, I will not have achieved it. In fact without her sacrifice financially, I still doubt whether I will have gone to school. Probably I might have dropped out of school.
Last year, I was not really able to celebrate her on her birthday. She celebrated her birthday around November 24th 2024 but I was not able to celebrate like I should. Majorly because I was still in school and facing a whole lot of challenges academically. But this year, I will not allow the mistake to repeat itself again.
My plan is to get a new phone this year. Probably get her a high quality phone because the present phone she is using right now has some slight of issues. I believe I should be able to change it during her birthday of course with quality one. She is not a fan of iPhone phones so probably I will be getting her a Samsung phone. My budget for this gift will be around 300,000 Naira to around 400,000 naira.
Even though it is little, but I believe she deserves it because I will not be where I am today without her. And also even though it is little compared to what I will still give her in the future, but I want her to start having a sense of reaping the fruit of her labour. Whenever I looked at her, I just keep appreciating her deep within her because just like I said, without her, I will not be where I am today. She is everything to me.
