Indebtedness

Display of immense gratitude despite animosity. This is my definition of indebtedness, created from reflecting how my mother has behaved to those she feels has helped her stand on her own two feet. Never a christmas passes by where she doesn't visit a family friend near our old home on Kensington Road. Always with a birthday cake and card in hand, my siblings and I gather in front of the gate, waiting for my mom to open the gates. My siblings would pretend to be cheerful even though deep down they would rather be at home watching a movie. We enter the living room furnished with gaudy red wood furniture- the same redwood furniture in our own home. My brother and I spent hours there in our childhood. The living room was where I lost my two front teeth because I hit the corner of the coffee table.