If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

🌹 Trying to answer this question is like wearing shoes that don’t fit! Let me explain. I am a unique person! I spent my entire life constructing this identity. To say I want to be someone else for a day is tough to comprehend!

To answer the question for the fun of participating in the prompt, I would be my mother. Mom died when she was 57, so I only had 28 years with her. Looking at the number of years, it seems like a lot of time with her, it was not. I was around seventeen when she first got cancer. I was 28 when she died. She transitioned on my wedding anniversary! Mother was 47 when she got breast cancer and around 53 when she got pancreatic cancer. My mom died at 57.

When you think about 30 years with my mom, it was a very short time. I have not gone one day where I don’t think of her. She’s my hero and an example of how to endure what life throws at you. My mom is still my greatest reason for being who I am today.

I choose to be her for a day!

Even in her suffering, she saw all her children get married. She spent time with all her grandkids. But only a handful knew their grandmother.

Why do I want to be my mom for a day? She spent her entire life caring for nine children (six girls and three boys). We all outlived mother and are now all in our 60s. That’s not fair, and to be my mother for one day would give me a renewed sense of who she was on the inside.

Mother has been gone since 1988 at around 5:30 am. We were all with her up until the last hour of her life. We left the hospital to go home, shower and change. Before we could get out of the car to go in the house, we got a call from my baby brother that she was gone.

If I could be anyone on this entire planet for a day, I would want to be my mom!

I didn’t intend this answer to be so deep and emotional, but my mother meant more to me than anything. Mother was a beacon, a tower of strength and courage. If I could be anyone, I would be my mother, just for a day! 🌹