A little while ago someone very special to me told me they were proud of me. And I felt like I had just won the freaking stanley cup, or some other really incredible award.
There's really no words to describe how wonderful that felt to hear.

As far back as I can remember the one consistency in my life has been her. She is a mother to me always has been, always will be. The one thing I have always struggled to do is to try and make her proud of me, my actions didn't always show that but that most certainly was the one thing that i always wanted. Even now, despite the fact that I do a lot of things that she doesn't agree with, it makes so much of a difference to hear it from her. It shows she knows that I am trying; she sees it and for some crazy reason, somehow that makes her proud of me.
All I know is hearing it from her that day, it made me the happiest girl in the world.