I miss you too, mom!
I’m taking a social media class, and we have been assigned to blog at least twice a week with “significant” posts on the class’s private social network. I’ll be reposting my articles (with some edits) here on Tumblr for all to see.
So I’ll be the first to admit that, yes, I’m a bit of a loser being 23 and still living at home with my parents. But taking 21 credit hours and keeping up two part-time jobs, one could understand that I am never at home. Literally, during the week I see my sisters and parents for the hour or so before they go to bed at night, and maybe in the first few minutes of the day before I leave for school.
This morning I woke up, dropped my youngest sister to school, came back home, and did my morning routine of preparing for today’s classes. As I was leaving the house, my mom was on Skype talking to our family in the Philippines. When she discovered it was me leaving for class for the day, she came to the door and gave me a little hug, and said, “I miss you Tom!”
Oh dear, that just about broke my heart.
The kicker was when I get into my car, and 89x Morning is on. At the time they were talking about boyfriends being too attached to their mothers. I got a little laugh out of that, what are the odds that my mom would tell me she misses me, and they’re talking about sons being too attached to their mothers. It was kind of like hearing the perfect song on the radio for a certain situation.
I don’t think I’m especially close to my mother, no more so than some of my other friends. I don’t tell her every secret, but I keep her well informed about what’s going on in my life. But I think that feeling, even though I don’t miss her all the time, just adds up over time. Family’s important, and that will never change with me.
