Survivor

Today, while talking about the story of how I was conceived and born, to a friend of mine. She stopped and gave me this stare.
"that explains it" she said.
"Explains what?"
"Explains everything about you" she kept looking at me as if she knew a secret "it explains why you thrive. You have this thing Michelle, that no matter what you do its as if you will not give up, you thrive, and rise to meet challenges. And now I totally understand why"

Insert me with perplexed look.

"Because you are survivor, before you were even born you had to fight for the right to do that, so of course it courses threw your veins and in your being. You were meant to thrive and to LIVE."

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I had never had anyone put my life into context like that, and hearing her say this made it real. She had an answer to my disposition, but I began to realize the gift my mother had truly given me.

Thanks Kris.