Recently, I've committed myself into a relationship. It's not your typical boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, it's completely the other way around, it'll make you even flip. I was reluctant to tell my mom about the relationship, as reluctant I was into jumping into this kind of relationship. Even if I'm just 15, I'm afraid to be in this kind of liaison kasi I know, bata pa ako and things can go wrong when you're in love at such young age. My first concern is that, being immature, many things can happen. The stings of breakups, less freedom, always having to bother about being a decent girlfriend, and most of all, the destruction it can possibly bring me. I was afraid na baka hindi ko ma-handle lahat yan but what those fears disappeared when I heard the advice of a really close friend,even if our age gap is more than 10 years, her words made so much difference. According to her, It's normal to get involved in this kind of relationship at my age and she's glad that I'm making little steps instead of a big leap that I might be regretting in the end. So I gathered up all my courage and committed myself. Then, the second stop is my mom.After conquering my fears, My mom is the next on my list. I can't stand all the sneaking in and I don't want to hide our relationship with my parents. Even if I know that they might disapprove, I still dared to tell my mom about my boyfriend. I respect my mom enough,and I don't want to sneak behind her back. Moreover, my mom trusts me so much and I don't want to break her trust and mostly, her heart. So I told her about it, at first, she's not all praises for our relationship but she told me that She trusts me, She said that She knows that I’m not that kind of girl who acts before thinking and those words were enough to make me cry out of happiness. It turns out that my mom is completely different from how I thought she was. I didn’t know that she trusts me so much. Of course, my mom is also afraid that I’ might get busted and get pregnant but the good thing is, my mom believes in me so much that she knows that from the way she raised me up, I’ll be reserved until the night of my wedding.

Because of my confession to mom, my respect for her grew firmer. I don’t even want to bring her down. I realized that I’m really lucky to have a trusting mom like her. If you’re going to ask me if I’ll trade my mom for Oprah Winfrey, Well, Hell no! Sure, Oprah is my idol but still, there’s no mom like MY mom. Just like what Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” And I’m glad that my mom is one of those instinctive philosophers around and I won’t trade her, not even for Oprah Winfrey or Audrey Hepburn.

..and She prepared for the Party!