Being a mother is not only a most astonishing experience but also the most remarkable responsibility a woman will undertake in her lifetime. Many women, like Oprah Winfrey, choose careers over family but do not lose that maternal instinct regardless of the choice to forego motherhood. Being female is an automatic incorporation of the ability to nurture and to love. A woman does not need to give birth to honor these emotions.
Oprah Winfrey exemplifies the ability to love, nurture, and protect. These are duties women know are instinctive to mothering. Having suffered many injustices in life, she opened her heart to the compelling influences of love and healing instead hate and cruelty. These powerful choices set Oprah on a spiritually inspirational plateau. It takes strength of character and an innate trusting of oneself to overcome crippling obstacles and achieve the accomplishments Oprah has. Mothers weep for their children's pain more than their own, and Oprah has shed many honest tears listening to those in deep anguish reveal their broken spirits to her.
Her weight struggle and living under public scrutiny have given her solid backbone that can withstand awful injustices that are invasive and unnecessary. Many of us would crumble under such painful interference into our lives. Oprah, like a mother, deals with disturbances by digging deep into her heart to cultivate goodness. It seems her answer to battling abuse is love and goodness. Any mother would suggest a peaceful way to an end to means than that of violence or pain.
It's said that women who do not bear children secretly harbor the desire to fulfill the maternal instinct. Who better to illustrate this conjecture than Oprah? She is not only a redeemer to scores of people struggling with emotional problems ranging from extreme weight-gain to extreme weight-loss, self adoration to self-destructive behavior, she has become a rescuer to a group of young girls whose futures would have been stunted, at best. Oprah promoted her staunch belief in goodness by constructing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, South Africa. Personally financing the establishment at no less than $40,000,000.00, Oprah has secured the future of 150 poor, underprivileged girls who, without her keen generosity, would not have stood a chance against the harsh, few chances fate delivers those lost in the distant, poorest, forgotten parts of the world. Because of Ms. Winfrey's determination to bring education to a fortunate number of young girls, a country war-torn with illness and violence now has a brighter future. There is no doubt that as these young girls continue on to higher education, they will seek to bring their experiences back to their birth country and help other children plant solid, flourishing roots in education and prosperity. Every mother knows education equals supreme freedom.
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls is a tremendous achievement and a personal victory for Oprah and educational achievement for the girls, but Oprah has helped so many of her "children" in the world realize their dreams and own up to their potential to make those dreams come true. Those whose lives she has masterfully steered into paths of success thrive with willpower and increasing self-esteem, especially in the face of any and all adversity. Her television show The Oprah Winfrey Show - reaches millions of people across the world. Many of these people are children who arrive to empty homes because of jobs that demand strict hours from their parents, hours that keep them from being home with their children. To these children, Oprah becomes a stand-in mother who can guide them on the right paths to constructive decision-making. Adolescent years are excruciatingly painful. When parents aren't around to answer the questions swirling aimlessly and chaotically in the minds of their children, Oprah's show is quite often the answer and savior to the conflicting questions and emotions that harangue youth, and to youth, questions and answers are high on the list of strategies to set straight their lives.
Like every mother hopes for the best to befall her children, she can only sculpt by example, by impressions, by setting standards at a realistic high, and by instilling a deep degree of self-confidence so that when malfunctions do occur, the children do not recognize them as failures but as higher hurdles to jump, bigger challenges to conquer, and the next match as the one to triumph. Who better to exemplify the ups and the downs of this human game than Oprah Winfrey and who better to give cause for sticking-to-it and winning?
Oprah is a kind of mother to the entire world, not just girls and women, but boys and men, and animals and earth as well. Her respect of life extends to every living creature and every living thing. Her true and heartfelt concern for humanity sounds worldwide. She is a surrogate mother to those of us lost and weak in the frightening fight to stay afoot in the reckless games within the human coliseum. Her kindness, goodness, sincerity, and scrupulous acceptance of herself and people and all of our foibles makes her a winning model to cheer on the emotion of love. In a world that seems to have become cold, self-gratifying, and determined to achieve no matter how sickening the means to do so, Oprah projects a promising ray of light that shines over sentiments we recognize as home, as familiar, as trust, as love, and most of all, as family. Her guiding light will shine on for eternity and those of us lucky enough to have been influenced by her mother-like-love will, no doubt, tend to love and nurture our children in the same fashion.