Now this answer will be a very short one as I don’t have much to say in regards to the topic and also I didn’t get much sleep last night and I’m exhausted as I write this. For those of who have read my previous entries about the relationship between mom and I, you would have read that I’m one of the few people in her life that she still respects. She’s suffered some losses in our family in the last couple of years both by means of death and fights which have resulted in agreements on both ends to never have anymore contact with each other. By her own admission, I’m one of the few reasons she wants to remain healthy and live a long life despite dealing with cancer a few years ago. For this reason I will be forever faithful to mom but the fact is that I had to earn that respect and that title of being one of the few people she can count on. With that being said, in my 36 years I have never broken the law intentionally or not as doing so would put me in the same category as those people who mom never wants to have contact with. I can’t handle that. It would devastate me to be viewed in that way by mom and honestly I know right from wrong. I would think that doing so would harm mom emotionally as I know she has spent my whole life teaching me proper ways to live and definitely what is within the law and against it. It’s a well known fact that if I ever did break the law even unintentionally, it would be the end of mom and I as far as our relationship is concerned. I can’t even really say that I would unintentionally do so because someone who breaks the law by accident is unaware of the trouble that doing so would cause and this is something that I have been taught by mom over the years. There’s simply no reason for me to break the law because honestly, I know better. Mom did her job right in raising me and that includes teaching me what should and shouldn’t be done to live a happy life. Therefore breaking the law is not an option for me.

As I write this, I’ve just realized now that my answer to this question should have only been two or three sentences based on my level of alertness. Can anyone believe that I wrote this entire paragraph when I couldn’t even keep my eyes open and going on only a couple hours of sleep? I can’t. But this just goes to show that maybe if I put my mind to it, I can accomplish anything whether I’m awake or not. LOL! The point is that mom also always believed I can do anything I put my mind to no matter what. This is one of her greatest qualities and the reason why I will never break the law.

By Jefferson Bert