Response to Evanescence

Response to “My Immortal’ as performed by Evanescence

Since I have been married almost twenty years, I can’t relate to the song in a romantic sense. My husband Jeff and I have grown to inseparable in spirit although we have often been separated because of work-related travel. But I can relate to this song in that Jeff and I will be taking our 18 year old son to college in exactly 11 days. As this day approaches, I think of how wonderful it was to raise him from a baby to the man he is becoming. As the song says, I wiped away his tears, fought away his fears, held his hand through the years. As I dwell on it further, is it my son I will miss or the person I was while raising my son. The role of mother dominated who I was for 18 years, but now I am beginning to feel a little more like who I was before I became a mother—almost an unbearable lightness of being.