Text to self

The way Trevor Noah describes his family reminds me very much of mine. His mother is a very hard headed, religious, strong woman. She reminds me very much of my own mother who is very self driven in the way that she can do anything she wanted with no help from a man. Most people get annoyed by the mother’s smart responses like ” So i should have left you in the car for them to kill you?”, but when you deal with comments like that all your life you find humor in it when it’s upon someone else. Trevor’s mother  also has a large sense of pride that I can understand. My parents take no embarrassment from who they are, or what they look like. They work hard for the things they want and will always find a way just like his mother. She also reminds me of my grandmother who I call Abuelita. She was very independent and she’d watch out for herself and live for the high. She’d suffer the consequences of her actions and carry on doing what she did best, which was living. His family is also very religious, which I can relate to and deepens my understanding of where he is as a child and how he experiences life.  His family and mine are very alike in certain aspects, so when he talks about his family and what they’re like I can see myself in his shoes in a way. My question after reading the first two chapters is why hasn’t Trevor’s mother lost her faith in God after what has happened to her and what she has been through? The best answer I can come up with is that her faith is what got her through those rough moments, and at times she felt its all she had. God gave her the child that she always wanted and the life she lives everyday.