Mom, Thank You

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Due to the fact that the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody" about the life of Freddie Mercury came out on the screens, now and then there are reviews of this film in the Facebook feed.

I'm interested in watching this movie, but haven't watched it yet.

But when I went to YouTube, I came across a couple of films about Freddie. And so I was imbued with respect and sympathy and warmth for him …

I also noticed that my mother really liked Freddie. And mom is no more than 3 years old. And during her life with my mother, I had a difficult relationship. As a child, I don’t remember my mother praising, approving, supporting me as I would like. And in adulthood too. It was the other way around. Mom did everything in such a way that it did not support me, but on the contrary made me even more upset. And until the end of her days, I made a lot of my efforts to make our relationship more kind. And in some ways, it seems to me, they really became kinder and warmer.

So, I notice with warmth that those famous people, films and books that my mother liked, they are also very close to me. This understanding becomes very warm. I suddenly notice how much we have in common. And to myself I say: "I am the daughter of my mother." No matter how hard I try to do something in my life differently from my mother, denying a lot of what she did. But in fact, it turns out that by denying everything like that, I was missing something suitable for myself.

I have long understood for what I can be grateful to my mother. Even though I didn't get what I needed from her, I got a lot of other good things from her.

I also, as a mother, love Adriano Celentano. I remember how we went with her to a small cinema to watch "The Taming of the Shrew." I love his songs, his voice, his bright personality. I remember how my mother and I went to her friends, who could record Celentano's songs on cassettes. And as a teenager, I had a cassette with Celentano's songs and a record.

Now I remembered that when my mother died, I listened to Celentano's songs all day. And I seemed to be listening to them with my mother. And this very much supported me to live through the loss of my mother, her death. She was with me in my soul. She is still in my memory, in my heart.

I remember how my mother and I went to the "Cruel Romance". And thanks to this interest of my mother in good cinema, I learned to see in these films something important and valuable to me. "Cruel Romance" is one of my favorite films for me, in which I like the performance of all the actors. And then I had a cassette with the music from this film. And I really like this music. And in general, the films of Eldar Ryazanov are always very deep and subtle films for me.

If you remember now all the actors and films that my mother liked and me too, then I'm afraid that there will be too many of them.

Oleg Yankovsky, Evgeny Leonov, Vyacheslava Tikhonov, Evgeny Mironov, Leonid Filatov, Andrei Mironov, Alexander Shirvindt and many others.

Recently, before my mother died, she asked me to show her concerts on Elvis Presley's YouTube. We watched Celentano's concert in Verona with her. She was very fond of watching "Evening Urgant" in the evenings. And now I enjoy watching "Evening Urgant". Not that I was delighted with the way Ivan conducts it, but this program gives me joy and pleasure.

Why am I saying all this?.. To the fact that it is very warm and pleasant for me to admit that my interests so coincide with my mother's. And I like them. And it is especially warm to me that mentally I can turn to my mother with the words: “Mom, I am so grateful to you that you instilled in me your love and interest in all this”.