Short story - United we are strong 💪

This is a brief story that I wrote inspired by this image, I am supposed to say a title and what it is about very briefly; but I like to tell even a little bit of history.

I hope you like it!.

United we are strong

It is the story of a mother and her son, who live in a very poor region and have few economic resources, but both fought together against adversities. The mother cleaned other people's homes in order to earn money and thus survive; and always on vacation her son helped her, this boy was one of the best students in his class, very intelligent.

His mother knowing and wanting a better future for him struggled day by day and did not give up, seeing his son grow up, learning gave him strength to work and thus be able to save to give the boy a good education. While the son struggled to help the mother in whatever she could and studying hard, being always one of the best students in her class to make her mother proud. His mother was the engine that drove his strength to want to fight for a better future.

The years passed both lived in a better case, in a better sector of their city, they no longer had the worries that the money will not reach them or how to deal with day-to-day expenses.

At that time the boy was preparing to receive an award for his work in the practice of medicine and his dedication to that field and his patients; That boy had become one of the best doctors in his country. After a while, once he was ready to go to the event under the stairs of his luxurious house and in the living room an old woman sat, it was his mother who was waiting for him to go to the awards together; at that moment the mind of this man retented time back and remembered everything that had happened in his children and growth, how both lived before and how they lived now; and he felt fortunate about all that day... all he got was in large part to his mother. At that moment, he approached her and took her hands and said: "All this I achieved thanks to you, you were the force that served as my motivation"; and in response his mother told him: "Son, you were also the force that made me strive every day, that made me fight to give you a good education and not let myself be overcome by adversity, we both achieved it, we both gave ourselves the strength to move forward , together we are stronger my son. "

They both cried, hugged and left for the award ceremony with a big smile on their faces. And a huge satisfaction for having progressed so many, for having achieved so much.