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Love letters to my kids | PATIENCE | “No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano”

Love letters to my kids | PATIENCE | “No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano”

Darien Mejia Chandler
Love letters to my kids

"No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano" is a Mexican saying that literally means that "getting up early does not make dawn come earlier", wishing for it won't make it happen. In other words: be patient!

The saying could be ad hoc for the current generation used to instant gratification. Everyone knows that not because we send an email at 3am we are going to get an immediate response. But, we are so used to having access to things at any time and any season, that when we face a normal wait, we get anxious wishing for things to happen, we want it now! hence the phrase: "getting up early does not make dawn come earlier"

Love letters to my kids

Love letters to my kids

Darien Mejia Chandler
Love letters to my kids

As a Mexican mother of two kids born in the United States, I want them to be proud of their heritage. I love language almost as much as photography, so I am starting a series of notes for my kiddos where I am using the popular wisdom or “refranes” that my parents use as I was growing up in Mexico, as well of motherly advice that will come handy when they have their own kids. Because “wisdom comes with age” and I sure have lived longer than them. I hope people that read this could find it interesting as it brings two cultures together in English and Spanish.