Sama is Celebrating Her Mother Because…
Sama is a CMMB alumnae volunteer
My mom’s name:
Nihal El Guindi
I am Celebrating My Mother Because:
she is the woman that taught me about strength, resilience, and self-reliance. She has been through more than the unimaginable and every single time her radiating smile, contagious laugh, and positive soul only grows stronger. ]
Her love and support for us, her children, reveal the totality of who she is: kind, genuine and selfless. Her love for traveling, funky sunglasses and always making jokes was passed down to all of us, making each one of us an independently remixed version of our beautiful mother. The lessons I have learned from her and that I will teach to my own children some day are infinite, and the memories are even more.
I am celebrating my mother because anyone who knows her, knows that her strength is incomparable and I only hope to be half the woman that she is, one day.
How my mother has inspired me:
Well, my mother inspires me every day but one specific moment comes to mind.
When I was 16 years old I was diagnosed with cancer, a situation for any parent, I could never imagine. Eight days later, my mom came into my room and said: “So I have cancer too.” We looked at each other and burst into laughter, both thinking: wow, what luck! After a weird moment of laughing at the news of cancer, she sat down and told me that everything was going to be fine. I was going to be fine. She was going to be fine and I had nothing to worry about. And in that moment, those words made it all better.
We looked at each other and burst into laughter, both thinking: wow, what luck! After a weird moment of laughing at the news of cancer, she sat down and told me that everything was going to be fine. I was going to be fine. She was going to be fine and I had nothing to worry about. And in that moment, those words made it all better.
To make a long story short, my mother and I both battled and were cured of our cancers more or less at the same time. But during that whole time, my mother never let me feel as though she was sick.
Countless doctor appointments, surgery, and radiation, and not once did she show me the pain she went through to make sure I was never worried about her. I don’t know how to explain it any better, but I know the sacrifices my mom has always made for us, not just in this situation but in all others, to make sure that we were okay regardless of whether or not she was.
She is and has always been strong, for us and herself, to make sure we felt the best, had the best and were the best. Not to mention, she is one of the few people that can take a horrible situation and find the humor in it and make all those around her laugh.
Our funniest moments have always been at our lowest, toughest moments, which says it all about the strength she has to look at the bright side, laugh it off and move onto better times.
Love you, mom! Thanks for all the laughs and the unconditional love and support you have always given me. You are my rock.
