Personal Narrative: My Mother

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It states in our book, “Wise people know a great deal about how to conduct life, how to interpret life events, and what life means” (Kali & Cavanaugh, 2015). After having read this statement, I narrowed my choices down to the one person I believe to be the wisest, my mother. I believe my mother is a good example of wisdom because of the infinite advice she gives me, she reflects back onto her personal life experiences and presents it to me as a lesson. She’s gone through a lot in her life, from loosing her mother at a young age, to having to quit school in order to help with the household. It states, “Wisdom deals with important or difficult matters of life and the human condition” (Kali & Cavanaugh, 2015) and I can only imagine how

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