Who is your Role model??

           

            Life and time are the best teachers ever and they have taught me that nobody is perfect. I believe each and every individual has the best and the worst in them. Most of the people do look up to their parents; some do look up to those famous, most successful individuals in the society, people like Tiger Woods, the ones we could refer to as societal role models. But somewhere along the way life takes a toll on these individuals, the worst comes out of them and we get disappointed. I have realized that all these people are not perfect and I would not therefore take one person entirely to be my role model. However I do look up to different individuals and take up bits of the best they have got. The least successful, the least famous person could be my role model at a particular time for a particular reason. I think of that mother in the village, with a little baby who is only a few months old. She wakes up in the morning, early in the morning before the dawn while her husband is still sleeping; carry her baby in her back, carry her hoe and march to the farm. She farms all day long, sometimes under the hot sun and sometimes under the heavy rains. At noon she stops for a while to eat the little food she had left from the previous night, after that, she breast-feeds her baby and goes back to tilling the farm. In the evening when the sun is setting she marches back home again with her baby in the back. She reaches home and finds it the way she left it in the morning. No food prepared and the husband is nowhere to be found (he is probably sipping some local brew in a nearby local joint). She does not complain, she puts her baby aside, she walks to the nearby bush she picks up a few wooden sticks and uses to them to light up the fire. She then starts cooking for the family. The husband comes back home drunk and hungry starting to demand for food and at the same time yelling at her and complaining why the dinner is late. He calls her names, and throws a number of insults at her. Yet without complaining she serves him food, they eat she washes the dishes and ensures that everything is in order before going to sleep. She is the last one to sleep and the first one to wake up, and that is her routine and she doesn’t complain!! Shouldn’t I look up to that woman before I open up my mouth to complain over an issue so irrelevant? Shouldn’t she be my role model for that particular time when I think that I have so much to do, and life is complicated?Maybe I do not have a specific role model yet.