I haven’t been writing actively for a while. Apparently being at home makes me lazy to go to computer just to write.
I want to write about my nephew, my first brother’s son. All the while I’ve only met him for a short period, and he didn’t want to interact. But when the family came to Singapore, I finally can play with him. Apart of his reputation as little monster, to me, he is actually very sweet and well-behaved. He is quite different with other children, he doesn’t ask for attention, often he would just play by himself. So it’s good when we have to bring him outside, we can even had our meal as if there is no child around. Only when there are certain things he doesn’t like, he would be difficult, but that is not often.
The funny thing is, he really like anything connected with transportation, bus, train, plane and boat. He would enjoy the journey which is something that really eases the parent. The problem is, sometimes he doesn’t want the journey to end.
So, I kind of miss him. He he… I do. I really do.
When I saw my brothers dealing with their kids, I can see that actually children sometimes are really selfish, just because they don’t understand the parent’s difficulty to fulfill their demand. One story that my mom shared, when we were young, we were very poor. One day, mom went out with eldest brother. He wants a toy but she didn’t have money to buy it. But the kid wouldn’t understand, cried and refused to stand up. It’s very sad for parent not to be able to fulfill the child’s wish, because the child doesn’t understand, they didn’t know.
So for all children who already understand, we gotta be nice to parents for what they have endured for us..for it is the greatest patience and love that they gave and they always give.
