vendredi, juin 27 ' 22:47
I've been seeing all kinds of students of different ages lately, and it feels as though it was just yesterday that I'm as young, lively & innocent as them..
Children who are in primary school are so lovely, sweet, cute, mischievous and active. Children in secondary school may or may not be as active. Generally the sec1 students should still be very lively and energetic like the pri sch kids. As you grow older, you really feel that life passes by faster, but your movements become slower.
I've lost touch with the childhood memories & children way younger than me. I've forgotten how to take care of them, make them happy, etc.
It has been a really long time.
I was in the bus 184 today, and I saw a mum carrying her pri sch kid's ultra bulky and big bag and squeezing through the extremely crowded bus just to get a seat for the kid, yet she couldn't get a seat for herself & had to stand somewhere near the child (but she was in a super awkward position & obviously she'd be blocking the passengers boarding the bus if she continued to stand there). I found it quite a touching yet common sight; all children get motherly love somehow, just that mothers show their care & concern using different ways. Some children don't understand how tough it is for their parents to tc of them & provide them w everything, and they're always asking for more. Some are more mature & understanding, so the parents have a lighter load & an easier life. Parents sacrifice so much for their children, and I really wonder how many of the kids really know what their parents are going through.. hmm.
So anyway, I gave my seat to the parent since I was sitting just opposite the kid & I guess the mum wanted to be close to the kid throughout the entire journey. She refused & kept telling me that it's okay.. which made me think even one step further- she's really different from the people I used to meet in bus 966. Extremely kiasu people who take the bus (*)#@!# they'd walk to the bus even if there are 3 buses queuing at the bus stop before bus 966. In fact, some people would run/brisk walk. -.- I'm really glad I'm not experiencing the same old freaking sandwiching-exercise in the stupid bus every bloody morning & evening. Instead, I take a 3 min walk every day, and see cute yet naughty lil kids and take care of them.. hmm.
There are way too many things in life that we take for granted. The food that parents prepare for their kids for recess time (pri sch), the school bag that's well-packed for the kids since the previous night, the clean & brite school shoes washed by parents over the weekend so that their kids do not get scolded in school for having dirty shoes, the well-ironed uniforms prepared at night after their parents end work.. etc. When I was in primary school, I never realised how tough it was on my mum to take care of me and tolerate my nonsense. It has been exactly 12 and a half years since my mum first woke me up for school. Even until now, she still has to wake me up for school, prepare my breakfast for me so that I can eat it while traveling to school/work, fill up my water bottle for me, iron my clothes, wash my shoes, socks, clothes, cook my meals...and the list goes on.
It's only now that I can really reflect & feel really guilty & upset with myself for having such attitude throughout the past 18 years.
Mummy & daddy, I love you so much.
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Something to add on to this.. Fortunate people will never understand how much misery the less fortunate go through.
never.
p/s I didn't want the previous entry to be read.
♥ let's go somewhere only you & i know.
