Changes are infinite and unpredictable. They are often ineffable and inevitable. Positive changes are hard to achieve. Changes for the better occur when one person steps out of her role in life or in relationships with herself or other people and acts upon a new, unknown and unexplored set of instincts. Like many others, my mother has been the single most influential person in my life. Although my parents did share the task of financially …showed first 75 words of 1387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1387 total…my mother and I, and I can see it in my mother’s and grandmother’s relationship. We are getting to the point where power struggles are lessening and we are more apt to offer each other advice. This exchange really embodies the feeling that my mother has been through all this before; she was young once, too, and she knows where I am coming from. We are not as different as we once were.