Why I Don’t Want to Be Like My Mother

I don’t want to make the same mistakes

Photo by Eye for Ebony on Unsplash

My mother immigrated from Ghana to the United Kingdom in the 1970s. She worked tirelessly for more than 30 years as a nurse for the National Health Service. She was a strong, hardworking, and independent woman. Watching my mother work her fingers to the bone every day was inspiring and it pushed me to become hardworking, focused, and…