Motherhood is Happiness
by Michaela Stevens
(San Francisco, CA, USA)
Only Better. After more than nine months of wobbling around and over sixteen hours of cramping and back labor, I now had a new name. At 16 I answered to the name, Mom. It was a case of a child raising a child.
Would I have changed it if I could? Probably not, due to the drastic changes, and the many lessons I have now learned. I must say it made my life much better, and the happiness we have shared is incomparable to any other kind of happiness I have experienced... that of being a mother.
I said good-bye to friends and partying and hello to diapers and responsibilities. After giving birth, I got a false sense of relief. I quickly realized that my life was going to be filled with worries and sacrifices. I had grown rapidly and I had to learn to be happy with what I had in my present life.
As I went through the motions of parenting and focusing on finishing High School I didn’t have time to think about how I really felt.
I was always occupied with and adapting to meet the needs of my child. I was adjusting to the demands of the baby in regards to his health and social-emotional needs. My life was very hectic and dramatic all I could do was focus on what was next and trek my way through only to await the next battle.
There were many times I wanted to give up but when I looked into his innocent eyes I felt happy and I knew what I had to do.
Sometimes just going with the flow and taking it as it comes is the best way to happiness and thinking back, that is exactly what I did.
It is always important to maintain good communication with your children and try to think positive no matter what the present situation may be.
I looked forward to all his milestones and watched him grow and that was reward enough and I knew everything I was going through was actually paying off.
I had made a very immature decision that put me in the situation I was in and I knew that the best way to deal with it was to think positive and look for the benefits.
I looked at my situation in the beginning from many people perspectives, weighed the pros and cons and made my decision based on what I had. Thirteen years later, I'm sure I did the right thing. Things have not always easy -my son is now a teenager- but it just made the rewards and happiness all that much better!
