Commentary: My mom was not a nice person. I never knew who I was going to get. But I learned a few invaluable things from her.
My mother was rude, angry, irritable, judgmental and ill-tempered; she was neither compassionate nor understanding. We fought quite a bit. I’d cry to friends about how I was treated, and they couldn’t understand why she was the way she was. I knew, and I tried to explain.When Calley Akouris died from two massive strokes on May 22 at age 90, she finally put a lifetime of hell behind her.
Maybe it was this pent-up anger that led her a few years later to mouth off to a rebel soldier during the civil war without knowing if the soldier was a Communist or a Socialist. My mom was out with an uncle on horseback when the rebel soldier appeared. He asked for their papers. She refused. He asked again. She refused again.She didn’t relent, and, in what can only be described as a miracle, the soldier let them both go.
There were other experiences that likely contributed to my mother’s mood swings and anger. She was the eldest of three children, and my grandfather told her that she had to leave Greece to live with relatives she didn’t know in a country where she didn’t understand the language. The plan most likely was for her to go to the United States first and send for her brother, sister and parents in due time.
As a child, I never knew what was going to happen when I woke up in the morning. Would I get the nice mom? Or would I get the angry mom who lashed out for no logical reason?
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