The Tragedy of Mother Martha

Life

It was unquestionably the best day of her life. Many mothers will say the birth of their children was the best thing that ever happened to them, but Martha, dear Martha, took it to another level. Martha wasn't raised well by her parents, to say the least. They were hardly around, and she was alone for much of her life. She was quite good at making friends, but could never figure out how to keep them. She was quite popular in school, she was pretty, and the boys loved her. Nobody would ever see how broken she was inside. She was so good at hiding herself that she forgot who she was before she hid behind a mask to make these friends. At the end of high school Martha never graduated, so she dropped out and married her boyfriend. Just one year later she's broke, pregnant, and alone. Her boyfriend left her for another woman after he found out that she was pregnant. Martha struggled to stay alive, and would often attempt suicide, but never succeeding because of the baby. All the woman ever wanted was a good life, and her only hope was in her child, a child born of drunkenness and recklessness, but a child nonetheless. Her baby could give her what she always wanted, to never be alone. Fast forward to the day of the child's birth. Martha is in a hospital, being tended to. You see her being handed her baby. "It's a boy," the nurse says gently. Martha bursts in to tears. This is where her life would begin again, she could be the mother she never had, and give her son the childhood he deserved. She bows her head over her son for a long time, thinking of a beautiful new day. Martha would always act on desperation, taking every chance she could get and believing in it fully. She was a truly pitiful creature that could never change her ways as much as she tried, because the way she was raised would leave a mark on her forever. She was taught to live only by experience, so she still tries to experience everything she can, with no idea of the future. Fast forward to the child aged one year. Martha is living in a tiny apartment now, things look bad but still better. Her beloved son, Eddie, is crawling around the floor while she reads a book that she hopes could help her get another job. It's peaceful and depressing.
Age 2: Martha is working two jobs, struggling to pay for childcare. She still lives in the same apartment, and you see her in a similar scene as last year, but Eddie is getting better at moving around and she's trying to find dates online.
Age 3: Martha tries to educate her son despite her limited time. She reads him a story every night, and he can speak fairly well. Martha goes on a date with a man, and comes back home exhausted and disappointed, wondering how she could ever find someone who would take a woman with a child. The same scene again, but Eddie is playing with blocks and she is trying read to him.
Age 4: Eddie goes to a preschool now, and Martha is taking college courses online to try to get herself a steady job. She takes him out for picnics a lot, and to the park where he plays with friends from school. The same scene again, where Eddie is running around the tiny house with a friend while his mother is focused on the computer.
Age 5: Things are starting to look better as Martha has found a boyfriend and Eddie is starting to go to kindergarten. She gave up on going back to school again and focuses on her jobs and her new boyfriend supports her. The same scene but Eddie is drawing and Martha and her boyfriend are sitting on the same couch together, watching him.
Age 6: The boyfriend leaves her because he felt like she only wants him for her son, which was true. They split apart and she focuses even more on how her baby is doing. She plays with him and talks with him, trying to act like everything is okay. Another clip of a scene similar to the one that plays every year, but she's not on the couch. Instead, she's on the floor with Eddie, playing with dinosaur toys.
Age 7: The years seem to love quickly now, nothing very interesting happens, it's mostly only just showing that one type of scene now. She's on the couch watching Eddie play with a new friend and toy trucks.
Age 8: Couch scene again, she sits drinking coffee, staring into nothingness as Eddie and the same friend from last year duel with lightsabers.
Age 9: Martha joins the PTA at Eddie's elementary school and starts to make friends with the other moms. Same scene but she's on her phone talking to another woman over coffee while the same kids play cards.
Age 10: Eddie breaks his arm and Martha cares for him. His cast has many names on it, which makes her cry. Her son now has his own phone and the couch scene show Martha and Eddie on their phones. She sits in the same place as always, while her son is on the floor leaning on the couch. You see her occasionally glance at her son's phone and smile.
Age 11: A year of tears, as his best friend's parents got a divorce, and his mother tells him about his father and her situation before his birth. Couch scene, mother and son talking.
Age 12: Eddie gets good grades all the time, and as he just graduated to middle school, got into all honors classes. This year he begins to fail in school more, because his friend is going through a lot after the divorce, and considers suicide often. Martha tells Eddie about when she had suicidal thoughts. Couch scene, mother and son cry together.
Age 13: Eddie didn't get into any honors classes this year. His teachers are being rude to him, and he gets bad grades. She is becoming extremely depressed, along with everyone else. Her son's best friend commits suicide, and in his suicide note he says he gives all his possessions to Eddie, and there's a court case over it. Things are dark. Martha is asleep on the couch while her son is on the floor crying over his best friend's suicide note. He didn't get any of his friend's possessions. Instead, his friend's mother sold everything he owned.
Age 14: A very different part. Eddie avoids her and stops talking to her at all. Martha decides that she's had enough. She goes to the school with a gun and kills the teachers and children that bullied or mistreated him. When she sees her son in the halls the police have already caught up with her and tell her to drop the gun. She knows Eddie doesn't want her in his life anymore, and feels like she failed as a mother. She only had one shot left, and there was no escape. She dropped her gun, but the police shot at her unexpectedly, in front of her son. Eddie runs to her and she dies in her son's arms.
Eddie lives a good life anyway in honor of his dear mother Martha.
This was based off of a dream I had and I didn't remember it very well so it isn't as good of a story as it was supposed to be.