Motherhood Superheroes
What is your superpower?
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I admire a lot of people. Role models help me have someone to look up to. It makes me believe that, whatever my project, I can accomplish it.
Role models are empirical data points in my understanding of life. But we all are role models in the eyes of someone out there.
Since becoming a mother, I have welcomed new role models in my life, those I call Motherhood Superheroes.
Like in any good superhero movie, each has a different superpower. There is no redundancy. The world needs them all.
Let me introduce you to them.
Meet Anna
Anna had an amazing career.
When she met her husband, she knew she’d become a mother one day.
She never pictured herself as a stay-at-home mother.
But at some point, she understood this was the best she could do for herself and her family.
I admire Anna’s dedication to her family
Meet Alice
Alice loves her children, but she also likes her career.
Her job fulfills her as much as her family.
She would never become a stay-at-home mom.
But every day she’s at the office, she feels some guilt. She doesn’t know how much she’s missing from her children during these hours. Nevertheless, she knows that’s the best for her and her family.
I admire Alice’s passion and the strength to overcome emotions like guilt.
Meet Olivia
Olivia has a job she likes, and a husband she adores.
There’s nothing in this world that she’d like more than having a child.
But she’s struggling with infertility.
Olivia feels happy every time she sees a pregnancy announcement from a loved one. But also incredibly sad.
Will that ever happen to her? She cries herself to sleep some nights.
I admire Olivia’s capacity to handle her emotions and feel happy for others when she’s crumbling inside.
Meet Sophia
Sophia had children without thinking much about it.
After she got married, that’s what was expected from her.
But her marriage didn’t go as planned, and she can tell her ex-husband enjoys the mundane task of caring for the kids more than she does. She has no doubts that he is better at it.
So he got custody and she only spends every other weekend with her children.
I admire how Sophia stays strong, knowing that she did the best for her children, even if not everybody in her social circle understands that gender roles aren’t a rule.
Meet Danielle
She doesn’t want to be a mother to humans.
She wants to accomplish many things in life that may help people, but having children of her own would make it very difficult.
She adores her puppy. She takes care of her dog, walking her outside rain or shine.
She is proud of her dog as much as a mom would be.
I admire how Danielle ignores everyone who tells her that she should be having children instead.
Meet Joe
Joe was assigned a female at birth, but always felt more comfortable hanging out with the boys.
He eventually decided that his given name didn’t fit him anymore, and now everybody calls him Joe.
Joe knew, however, that he did want to be a parent one day, so he never underwent surgery. He eventually found the right person and got pregnant.
I admire how confident Joe looked at the OBGYN clinic, proud of his gigantic belly, ignoring the looks of disapproval from some of the other patients.
Meet Evelyn
Evelyn was in college when she got accidentally pregnant.
But she knew it was not the right time, nor the right person for her.
She had been accepted to grad school for the next year. She was going to specialize in cancer research.
So she terminated her pregnancy, and now her cancer treatments are saving hundreds of thousands of lives every day.
She recently met Isabel, and they are planning on doing IVF next year.
I admire how Evelyn stayed strong, having to make the hardest choice of her life, and turned that adversity into something good for humanity.
Meet Joanne
Joanne wanted to be a marine biologist, but her family never supported that decision.
They didn’t support sex education either, so she was extremely surprised when she found out that she was pregnant, and not just missing some periods.
She was scared but decided to move on with the pregnancy.
I admire how Joanne teaches her daughter about marine biology every afternoon at the library, in between her job and online classes at her university.
Take-home message…
See? Each person, each mother, has a story behind it.
There is something admirable in each story, in how each of these people handles adversity and life.
I’m learning to not judge. To acknowledge that there are things I don’t know. And that every person is a Superhero for one reason.
We all have a superpower, and we should be admired for our strengths, not punished for our weaknesses (or what people understand as a weakness).
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