The reason

Every time I see a college student over the age 0f 40 I get extremely depressed. It is not because I feel they have made a mistake or because I do not approve of what they are doing. I believe it is never to late to go to college. The depression comes from one very important college student I knew. Her curiosity unending, her reasons for attending completely selfless. She went to college not just to better herself, not just to better the lives of her children, but to better as many young lives as she could. She had a passion for children and hoped to help those children most in need of a mothers love. She was in her third year of college at the age of 44 studying to become a teacher for students generally viewed as "menaces to society." Tragically that would be as far she would get in her higher education. On the night of December 11, 2003 she fell asleep for the last time. She has not died though, not in my eyes, I am not quite sure there is a heaven but if such a place exists she defiantly made it in. More importantly, then her place in heaven, was that her determination and her need to help others lives on. I am not 44 and i do not have a passion for kids, but I want to devote my life as selflessly as possible in her memory. I know my motives will never be as selfless as hers, but i will try. She is the reason I am here, the day she enrolled in College I knew I wanted nothing more. The day she died I promised her and myself I would. The day I enrolled I knew she was proud. She wanted nothing more, after all, then for her children to live happy lives. RIP mom