A mother´s love
Hi there! This is me now . I´m sitting here on my bed (read: floor) in my little room, preparing my next interview with Chinese orphans. I´ve already done 4, and it was amazing to hear the girls´ and boys´ stories, but also very emotional. So many things I take for granted, the most essential things in life, like being thankful for my mother yesterday on Norwegian Mother´s Day. What is more important and basic in life than having a Mom? I don´t know. I feel like I don´t ever want to complain again about petty little things when I know I have some of the most basic essential in life - a mother´s love. I don´t cry when I am here, and sometimes it feels like my emotions are shut off. Maybe it is so I can handle living here, with them , or to be able to have an objective view when I interview and write about them. But when they told me their stories of losing parents or long years of waiting without parents, I could feel tears filling my eyes, just seeing how vulnerable they are in som...