I left my house in a mess yesterday. eg. wet towel on my parent's bed. iron left on the ironing board. my mother was pretty angry and sent me an sms while i was in town, giving me a piece of her mind. now the question is, is it fair to complain when one does a mistake? let's say i have a bad habit of forgetting to turn off the lights in my house(which i actually did have). then let's say over a span of 1000 days, i remembered to turn off the lights. but then on the 1001th day, i forgot. then i get this shelling. we don't get praised for remembering. but we get a good treshing for forgetting something once in a while... the reason we are even being scolded, was because that a mistake was done. otherwise it would be normal every day. nothing said. no scoldings, no praises. think about it. its really weird. i find it really weird. it irks me to the core. its like doing the right thing for a thousand years, and when you just forget for just ONE day. your parents make it seem like you have not learnt a thing. or worse like in my case, they MAKE me FEEL like they want me to believe that they feel disappointment in me. luckily for me, i'm not affected by these trivial normal human feelings.( do you have to feel disappointed with yourself just because they do?) they complain when i forget to close their door, whenever i enter with the aircon on. -my mum sometimes do that too when she enters my room, she leaves it wide open, but i don't say anything. WHY? i wouldn't realise it if she didn't make that mistake. and that mistake could be because she forgot, this time. this rare occasion that happens once in a millenia. i can think in that way. why can't they. CAN YOU? or will you just be another normal singaporean parent in the future. teaching your kids how to rush for places in the mrt and buses. how to be kiasu. how to be so singaporean. how to be so, human. Savant at 6/25/2005 09:58:00 am ;
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