Half a Day Away From You
There are some people whose presence becomes so woven into the fabric of your life that even distance never fully separates you from them. A mother’s love often becomes like that. Quietly constant. Familiar as breathing. Steady in ways children rarely understand fully until years later when life becomes more complicated and they begin realizing how much of their courage was built upon the simple knowledge that someone was always there waiting for them. Childhood is filled with firsts that feel enormous when you are small. The first day of school. The first goodbye that lasts longer than a few hours. The first moment a child realizes they must step into unfamiliar places without holding a parent’s hand the entire way. Those moments may seem ordinary to the outside world, but to a child they feel life changing. There is something tender about the image of a six year old turning around one last time before walking into school. That small wave goodbye carries more emotion than adults som...
