To Leave Something Behind
While riding with a friend a few days ago, I played my favourite sportify country list! Not long after, Sean Rowe’s ‘To Leave Something Behind’ came blaring through the speakers! Midway the song, my friend commented ‘This is a sad song’ and ‘I don’t like listening to it’ he subtly protested. I come from a small home. My mother was the only other occupant in that home and together we formed an impressive team! No one has ever and I believe will ever illustrate ‘trying to leave something behind’ more than my mother. A semi illiterate orphan and barely out of her teenage, my mother found herself in an abusive marriage! In her early 20s she left that marriage. After a brief period, she tried her luck again at a romantic relationship only to be abandoned by the man she had sired a kid with! She was only 25. In today’s world, some 25 year olds will be nursing hangovers every weekend if not every morning, yet my mother chose to hold two ...