The Most Remarkable Woman in the World

Everyone has that one person they look up to for inspiration and for guidance. Some people have pop stars and movie stars as role models and I see no problem with this, even if your role model is Lindsay Lohan (if you could call her a movie star at this point). But as much as I envy the life of movie stars (except for the paparazzi and lack of privacy bit), I do not look up to them for life skills and examples on how to live a full and meaningful life. The one person I consider to be the most remarkable person in the world is my mother.

Yes that sounds rather cliche but let me explain why and then maybe she'll be your role model too (she would love it).
My mother had me when she was a young twenty-something housewife, barely out of college. She took charge of an entire household at an age when I am sure I would be completely non-functional as a wife/mother/decent human being. But the most important part of my reasoning lies with what she did later on in her life.
She left a comfortable life in Jamaica (WARM) to seek a better life for us ("us" being me and her. Dad was out of the picture by this time) in New York City (COLD). She left everything she knew including most of her family and friends in an effort to find something more, something better. That takes an extreme amount of bravery and self-confidence. I am sure she was scared to a certain degree but she never showed it.

The next big step in her life came when she decided to go back to school to pursue the career she had always wanted. And after a few years in school, my mother became a Registered Nurse. On the day of her graduation I had never seen a happier woman in the world. She had struggled in her first years in America but had overcome everything and in ten years achieved what some never do. She loved her new career she loved her new life and she loved everything she had steadily built over the years.

While a career in nursing is most definitely not in the cards for me, I still hope to find what my mother found (doesn't everyone?). My mother's life is the story of a successful woman who took the hits as they came and dealt with them in the most graceful manner. In all honesty I swear that my mother would make a better Queen of England than the actual Queen of England (sorry Lizzie but she's just better than you). In fact my mother should be Queen of the World. That's right THE WORLD! Everyone could benefit from her skills and rationality.
Although my mom and I have our fights (sometimes some big ones) I know that a few minutes later it'll be like it never happened and we'll be friends again. No matter what she's my mother and she will always be the most remarkable woman in the world.