I am a convert

For a long time, may be since my early days as a Muslim, I was thinking and worrying about how I am going to fit in to this lifestyle and expectations of what Muslim woman should be like. I mean how I was going to compare to these women born into Muslim families, cared for by their Muslim parents and then their Muslim husbands, staying home raising their children and in some cases never having to work in their life. I spent many years trying to compensate for my upbringing and lack of Muslim family. Finally, I am starting to realize that if this is the standard, I am never going to meet it. And I will always be not good enough if I keep measuring myself by this standard of a what a born-Muslim woman would be like. But I am not, I am an American... I grew up here and at some point in my life I converted to Islam. And I can never change these things but there is nothing wrong with that :)