Tulisan Bamby untuk tugas sekolahnya

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My Most Influential Person

If I had to sit down and think about 'who', the answer would be obvious.
However, if you ask me about 'since when', I would sit there for a long time, not finding any answer.
She had influenced me for as far as I remember.
To describe her in a nutshell, she has intregrity. Of course, everyone has that, but hers is different, to a degree. She stern, and she had always hung on to her words.
It's natural for mothers to dote on their children, and she has no exception. Let me not bore you with a description; I'll tell you an example instead.

For the first time I was told to eat when I was toddler, I refused out of naughtiness, typical of children my age.
She simply told me sternly to sit down and eat. It was no threat, it was advice.
One that I complied with.
Sounds ordinary ?
I thought so too until my older years. In a family gathering or in other people's house, I have seen with my own eyes how some mothers, when exposed to the same position, would give in to their children's demands, some would even beg their children to eat.
Some mothers would even then treat their children as if they were the kings; granting their wishes blindly. My mother simply didn't.
That maybe was harsh, but in the end, it forged me to respect someone higher than I.
The irony was that some children who get to know my mother and were exposed to her strictness, ended up respecting her more than they respect their own mothers.

Another aspect was her ability to say "NO". Sounds easy ? it may be harder than you think.
It is common amongst housewives to gossip against each other; it's hard to resist that temptation, at least that's what I gathered.
But for all my knowledge, she has refused every single temptation by single word: "NO".
The irony was that she became even more respected precisely because of her refusal, another testimony to her personality.

It is also painfully obvious that she is an expressive person. Unlike what our culture had dictated, she would never lock anything that bothers her inside her heart and pretend that all is well; she would address it in an often straightforward, canfrontative manner. This had gotten my mother into conflicts, as she always has that degree of unflinching conviction.
Time and time again however, she had always been proven as the right party.
Despite so, if she later realized that she is the one who had committed the mistake,she was never to proud to apologize immediately.

As an extension to that, her words may be harsh, but she told me may times, "Always be careful with what you say. If you insult someone by mistake, it will be your downfall".
You might wonder then, whether or not I had taken her qualities or not. I'd say that, even if I am different than her in some respect, I admire her stable, tough personality.

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