Free College Admissions Essays: My Mother

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My Mother       When I was young, I drew a picture of my mother. It was her standing in a yard with a house in the background.  It wasn't our house, and my mother looked like anyone but herself.  Dressed entirely in green, with green hair and a green expression on her green face, she stood in front of a green two-story house surrounded by a green landscape.  Green was her favorite color, and I wanted to make a surprise out of the drawing for her.       My mother was a god to me in those days, and in my eyes she could do no wrong.  I think she understood this, and in turn she lavished attention on me like I was a princess in my own little world whose wishes were to be carried out no matter the cost.  We were close, too, and not a day went by when I did not divulge some sort of secret knowledge to my mom.  …show more content…

    As every child grows into a teenager, so I progressed to adulthood.  I seem to have now come to a plateau with my mother, where she is given polite consideration at the rare times I'm at home.  I feel an odd yearning for the connection to her, though, that I lost as I lost my childhood.  She has gone from a thriving force in my life to merely a resident in the house where I live.  Although I refrain from hurting her feelings, as I so foolishly did during my early teen years, I also refrain from expressing to her how much she means to me.  After a cursory greeting, I find myself enveloped in my own world, worrying about things that I would never think to tell her about.  Although I'm only seventeen years old, I feel like a middle-aged woman still living at home, when all my mother wants to do is get rid of me.  I miss her now, even though I live with her, and at times I wonder if she feels the same way, but the void between us is so vast that I would never think to bridge it with the

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