Wishes, Thinking, and Wishful Thinking

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Wishes, Thinking, and Wishful Thinking

My mother is a complicated woman. She is an incredibly strict (though she does not act like it) teacher who likes scaring her students; at the same time, she may cry while watching Korean dramas.  As you may have guessed, my mother is tad eccentric.  That isn’t the only thing that’s odd about her.  Even though it’s obvious that she has a lot of work to do, she somehow manages to be there for me when I ask her to be.  For example, she may have papers to check or grades to compute, but if I ask her to, she would gladly take me out for halo-halo.  That isn’t to say I don’t appreciate it; I just find it odd.  It doesn’t mean I don’t love her – even though I practically never verbalize it – it just means that despite her oddities, I love her all the same.

            There are many wishes I would like to wish for my mother.  But in the end, I wish that someday she is given the chance to see Papa again.  Not soon, but when she leaves me I hope she can again see him smiling at her with all the love he has – all the love she deserves.  For I always have myself, my quirks, my personality, my hand-me-down Catcher in the Rye book, and I can comfort myself through the loss.  But she lost her husband after almost three decades’ worth of time together and one with the child they waited seventeen years for; the child that left her after he passed away.  It isn’t fair. It’s rare that life ever is.  So I wish that she will be able to see the man who loved her, the man whom she loved back, because I believe you deserve this, Mama.  This wish is what I can give, and I will not hesitate to.

            On the whole, we can agree that Hally Andrada isn’t really your normal type of person. Then again, I’m not sure if I’ve ever met anyone who was. The idea of a normal human is a farfetched misconception of life; although I do not doubt that many out there would like to believe nonetheless. She is, on the whole, a person most of all. The notion to perceive her as anything less than that is wishful thinking.

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