My mom was talking about how she grew up, and how my grandmother emphasized education to my mom and her sisters. She made sure everyone went to the best schools, I remember when we started school, we went to live with her because she wanted to make sure we had the best education. When I was in first grade, she was learning how to read and write, and she had a bunch of women from the neighborhood taught life skills so they wouldn't have to depend on their husbands 100%. Growing up my grandmother, because she was a girl she didn't go to school, while her brothers went to school and become professionals, my grandmother and her sisters didn't because it was just assumed they would get married. She was married ofcourse, but her husband had 14 other wives, and when he died, she had to start all over because she only had daughters so she didn't inherit anything. I think that's why it was really important for her for us to have the best education.
When my mom when was telling the story I felt bad for not pushing myself academically, I always settled for good enough, I was capable of more, but I never pushed myself. The whole day I just felt bad and quilty especially, I felt like why didn't I just go to Yale, but I think I missed the point, I think the point of my grandmother working so hard for us to get a good education wasn't because she wanted us to be doctors, etc specifically, but I think she wanted us to get an equal chance of making it, and education is the best tool to have under your belt.
The next day, I spoke to one of my friends, he's one of those people who inspire you do better, because he's been through so much, but he works really hard and I see how his hard work pays off. I want to make my grandmother very proud of me, in anything I do, I want to do it the best way I know how, and to make sure I inspire someone along the way the way she did to me, and the rest of my family.
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