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Today as I am working in this box w/no sunlight a revelation dawn on me and I realized something…
I realized that my parents (mainly my dad) are human beings just like me and will have emotional roller coaster and hurt feeling if others do not treat them with the same type of respect I deem from our peers. Hmm…you might already know this, but for me, somehow my parents have been kind of greater than life ‘cause they brought us overseas to start off a new life. But yet in the process of doing so, our family kind of got split apart. But even so, my parents kind of made all things and all situations possible so that my brother and I can live a normal life. I think that is the general story of most immigrants. There was a period of 4 years that I didn’t see my parents and my brother didn’t get to seen them for 7 years. So I grew up thinking this is normal and we just have to gulp down what life hands to us even if everyone treats us bad. But of course I always believe that our family can make it cause we are tough and strong. But some how today I realized that my parents are getting old and they have their own emotional roller coaster to ride on even though they have to act tough and calm in front of us so we wouldn’t think something was wrong and we are going to make it.
Now that as I am soon to embark on my quarter of a century old bday I realize that maybe I need to start looking at my parents differently ‘cause after all it’s about time that I take care of them in this rapid changing world that is sweeping them off their feet only hoping to find something to hang on to.
I realized that my parents (mainly my dad) are human beings just like me and will have emotional roller coaster and hurt feeling if others do not treat them with the same type of respect I deem from our peers. Hmm…you might already know this, but for me, somehow my parents have been kind of greater than life ‘cause they brought us overseas to start off a new life. But yet in the process of doing so, our family kind of got split apart. But even so, my parents kind of made all things and all situations possible so that my brother and I can live a normal life. I think that is the general story of most immigrants. There was a period of 4 years that I didn’t see my parents and my brother didn’t get to seen them for 7 years. So I grew up thinking this is normal and we just have to gulp down what life hands to us even if everyone treats us bad. But of course I always believe that our family can make it cause we are tough and strong. But some how today I realized that my parents are getting old and they have their own emotional roller coaster to ride on even though they have to act tough and calm in front of us so we wouldn’t think something was wrong and we are going to make it.
Now that as I am soon to embark on my quarter of a century old bday I realize that maybe I need to start looking at my parents differently ‘cause after all it’s about time that I take care of them in this rapid changing world that is sweeping them off their feet only hoping to find something to hang on to.
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