A dear friend of mine asked on her Facebook page to share names of famous women who inspire you in your life. I tried to think about it for a while. Of course I admire Mother Teresa and Princess Diana for what they have done, I like Jennifer Aniston and Meryl Streep, and Martha Stewart as public figures, but I don't really know these people personally, so I can't truly say they are my role models.
But I was lucky and honored enough to have met women who really inspired me in my life.
I'll tell you about some of them, keeping them anonymously, since I actually didn't ask for a permission to write about them on my blog.
When I was a student, I lived in Germany for some time. There I met a wonderful woman who was the mother of my guest father. She had no easy life, believe me - 5 kids, three sons, two daughters, one of them had down syndrome, the other one died in a car crash in the age of 18th. That's a whole bunch of tragedies already, isn't it? But as if that wasn't enough, sons didn't have easy destinies either - a lot of complicated marriages and relationships. Her husband had weak heart, had 3 heart surgeries by the time I left.
Despite all said above, she was the most kind, loyal, devoted, sympathetic and inspiring woman I have ever met. She reminded me of Melanie Hamilton from the "Gone with the Wind", remember her? Sweet dear Mellie, who always thought about others more than about herself, very kind and sympathetic. I read definition of the word 'lady' somewhere (maybe even in the "Gone with the Wind"), it said something like 'a lady is a woman who tries to make everyone around herself to feel comfortable'. That was exactly what my guest father's mom was like. No matter how many ex-wives and kids her children had, everyone felt always welcomed in her house, she always had some treats for grandchildren and some food for unexpected guests. She always knew when you wanted to talk and was there to listen to you. She understood my situation, that I was a young girl in a foreign country, and always tried to offer me some extra work so I could earn some extra money (earn! which is important, not to offend me by just giving me money).
She is the person whom I miss mostly from that period of my life, not my guest family where I actually lived or my friends.
When I moved to Kiev, I met a lot of amazing, kind and talented people, I wrote about it on my Russian blog in my post 'why I'm proud to be Ukrainian'.
The next person who inspires me and about whom I'm going to tell is one of them. She is a young gorgeous woman (long legged blond, almost like Bond's girlfriend =)), practicing lawyer with two great daughters. And by the way she had no easy life by all means, just believe me. She is really an amazing, loving and understanding mom, and I admire her for this a lot (when I learned that she allowed her oldest daughter to tattoo wings over her back, because her daughter explained her decision, it just blew my mind).
I met her when she was selling beautiful women's clothes through her blog as her hobby, and we became good accuantaties. But when bad things started happening in our country last winter, she took her doctor's diploma and went to the hospital to offer her help. She just became my hero and my icon after that, an incredible, brave, very intelligent woman.
To my mind, she made the most right choice considering her children's future - she fought for them to live in a better country, instead of staying at home and trying to protect them from a hypothetical threats.
I was thinking who I should tell next about when I realized, I have so many amazingly cool people in my life!)) really, I never realized how actually blessed I am to be surrounded about such fantastic women.
One of my friends decided to go for her passion, left her career in banking and became a baker! This takes some guts, doesn't it?!
Another friend of mine is a single mom, and despite all difficulties she meets in her life, she manages to live on her own, raise a beautiful daughter and help the others.
I also admire my dear friend who inspired me to write this post a lot)) who is an amazing mom and wife and an incredibly talented artist!
I have lots of girlfriends who are great mothers, and are doing lots of fascinating things like charity, own business, lots of art projects, etc. But this post is long enough, I'll end it here.
Thank you all, incredible, beautiful by all means, amazing women, who I know, for doing all magical things you are doing, for being my friends, and for inspiring me everyday to be a better person!
But I was lucky and honored enough to have met women who really inspired me in my life.
I'll tell you about some of them, keeping them anonymously, since I actually didn't ask for a permission to write about them on my blog.
When I was a student, I lived in Germany for some time. There I met a wonderful woman who was the mother of my guest father. She had no easy life, believe me - 5 kids, three sons, two daughters, one of them had down syndrome, the other one died in a car crash in the age of 18th. That's a whole bunch of tragedies already, isn't it? But as if that wasn't enough, sons didn't have easy destinies either - a lot of complicated marriages and relationships. Her husband had weak heart, had 3 heart surgeries by the time I left.
Despite all said above, she was the most kind, loyal, devoted, sympathetic and inspiring woman I have ever met. She reminded me of Melanie Hamilton from the "Gone with the Wind", remember her? Sweet dear Mellie, who always thought about others more than about herself, very kind and sympathetic. I read definition of the word 'lady' somewhere (maybe even in the "Gone with the Wind"), it said something like 'a lady is a woman who tries to make everyone around herself to feel comfortable'. That was exactly what my guest father's mom was like. No matter how many ex-wives and kids her children had, everyone felt always welcomed in her house, she always had some treats for grandchildren and some food for unexpected guests. She always knew when you wanted to talk and was there to listen to you. She understood my situation, that I was a young girl in a foreign country, and always tried to offer me some extra work so I could earn some extra money (earn! which is important, not to offend me by just giving me money).
She is the person whom I miss mostly from that period of my life, not my guest family where I actually lived or my friends.
When I moved to Kiev, I met a lot of amazing, kind and talented people, I wrote about it on my Russian blog in my post 'why I'm proud to be Ukrainian'.
The next person who inspires me and about whom I'm going to tell is one of them. She is a young gorgeous woman (long legged blond, almost like Bond's girlfriend =)), practicing lawyer with two great daughters. And by the way she had no easy life by all means, just believe me. She is really an amazing, loving and understanding mom, and I admire her for this a lot (when I learned that she allowed her oldest daughter to tattoo wings over her back, because her daughter explained her decision, it just blew my mind).
I met her when she was selling beautiful women's clothes through her blog as her hobby, and we became good accuantaties. But when bad things started happening in our country last winter, she took her doctor's diploma and went to the hospital to offer her help. She just became my hero and my icon after that, an incredible, brave, very intelligent woman.
To my mind, she made the most right choice considering her children's future - she fought for them to live in a better country, instead of staying at home and trying to protect them from a hypothetical threats.
I was thinking who I should tell next about when I realized, I have so many amazingly cool people in my life!)) really, I never realized how actually blessed I am to be surrounded about such fantastic women.
One of my friends decided to go for her passion, left her career in banking and became a baker! This takes some guts, doesn't it?!
Another friend of mine is a single mom, and despite all difficulties she meets in her life, she manages to live on her own, raise a beautiful daughter and help the others.
I also admire my dear friend who inspired me to write this post a lot)) who is an amazing mom and wife and an incredibly talented artist!
I have lots of girlfriends who are great mothers, and are doing lots of fascinating things like charity, own business, lots of art projects, etc. But this post is long enough, I'll end it here.
Thank you all, incredible, beautiful by all means, amazing women, who I know, for doing all magical things you are doing, for being my friends, and for inspiring me everyday to be a better person!
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