A Tribute to my Mother

There is an African proverb that says, "What an elder sees sitting down, a young person cannot see standing up." When I was younger, my mother repeated that proverb whenever she wanted me to understand that she had a better perspective because she'd already gone through so much in life. At the time, I hated to hear it. Now, after years of my own experience, I have to admit that she was almost always right..