The Unabridged Version of a Rational Emotional Mind

I am back at my maiden home for a couple of days, and I find myself constantly hovering around my parents, especially my mother. I don’t want anything from her, I just want her in the same room – even if it is just us sitting and doing our own thing. I just want to see her. Ever since I got married, I find myself constantly reaching out to my mother every time I am overwhelmed in an alien situation or unable to handle my own feelings. This time when I came home, I found my mother telling me how once your parents die, there is no one truly yours left on this earth – your siblings have their own families and so do your adult children; you have your husband, but no one you could rely on like your mother. This conversation flipped another script in my head – Am I ready to be what my mother is to me? If you raise a child fairly well in this world, chances are, they will need you for the rest of your life. So I ask myself - Am I ready to be a mom? Well, I don’t know the answer yet. I t...