Did she tell you the world must yield to your will or did she tell you that you must learn how to adjust and deal with the world?
2007-06-21 07:13:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My mama taught me to be strong in the face of anything that the world could throw at me. She taught me to hold on to my beliefs and not to let the world change me because it thinks I should. Not so much that the world must yeild to me, but that I don't have to yeild to the world.
I think she taught me this because she was not strong enough to do so herself until much later in life.
2007-06-21 07:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My mother didn't teach me a thing about the world, she was too busy trying to impress her friends with our new grocery store. When that became too much for her she walked out on her 5 kids and left us with our abusive father.
Everything I learned about life came through experiencing it for myself, and the multitude of mistakes I made along the way.
I suppose in some distorted way her actions taught me that even those whom you think you can trust most will betray you if given the chance. What's odd is that I am the exact opposite of her.
Where she is distrustful and bitter, finding nothing good in this world, I still view it with my rose-colored glasses firmly in place. I trust everyone until given a reason not to, and I can't name one person I don't like.
Through her actions, my mother taught me what *not* to do.
2007-06-21 07:21:13 · answer #2 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She really did not teach me how to deal with the world around me. I had to learn on my own and I made mistakes. I don't know if I would have listened, but some advice may have helped.
2007-06-21 07:27:39 · answer #3 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never got deep lectures in morality just a sense of what was right and wrong and it's served me well throughout my life. What I learned then underpins my attitudes and values even now 40 years later.
2007-06-21 07:22:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
By being a role model, she never believed in preaching, she did it to prove that it works! Great mama !!!
She taught me to lean how to adjust, confont, and change things in a balanced fashion to express who and what i choose to be in life, to respect others simultanously.
2007-06-21 07:19:37 · answer #5 · answered by thachu5 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She taught me to respect my elders or she'd beat the livin... _______ out of me. So I did.
In the bible it says to obey your parents for it is right in the Lord.
It didn't say to obey them for they were right. Even though I believe she was right for teaching me to respect my elders!
Anyway ... just joking around... we were to adhere to the laws of the land as well as the laws of the Lord.
2007-06-21 07:17:50 · answer #6 · answered by sassinya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she said not to tell yourself lies
2. don't take everything so seriously
3. have respect for everyone
4. she has taught me alot about my african heritage
5.she teaches me how to be an example to my 3 nieces and 2 nephews
2007-06-21 07:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by ipodlady231 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put not your trust in family,friends,mothers or fathers. Only God cares. Man will surely let you down in more ways than one.
2007-06-21 07:23:09 · answer #8 · answered by God is love. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
she told me to treat ppl as i want to be treated and perform random acts of kindness as it will return to me 10fold!
she is Greek orthodox and I am not! but we are on the same page non the less and I love her for making me the best that I can be!
THANKS MOM
2007-06-21 07:20:45 · answer #9 · answered by slaveof12gods 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She told me to put all of my trust in Jesus and not the world.
2007-06-21 07:24:23 · answer #10 · answered by joyce 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋