4:07 PM
Recently, I received a mailer from Low Kay Hwa via Goodybooks!
Quote:
If I were to ask you to remember something about your parents, what will you remember? The day when they grounded you at home? The day when they scolded you? The day when they caned you? Or would you remember the day when they spent hours teaching you how to write A to Z? Be honest with your answer.
Imagine this: Fifteen years ago, you were on the phone with your friend. When your child wanted to poop, you hung up immediately, brought out the potty, passed the potty to her and got her to sit on the potty. “Hmmm,” you said, so that your child would pass motion with ease. Your child seemed to struggle, and so, you tapped on her head and said, “Slowly, take it slowly. Come, let’s try again. Hmmm.” Ten minutes later, your child was done with her poop. You rushed to the toilet to grab the toilet paper and taught her how to wipe her buttock. Your child complained but you persisted. As your child went off to the living room to watch television, you took the potty to the toilet, washed the potty and then called your friend. “I’m so proud, my girl just learned how to wipe her own ass!”
Imagine this again: One year ago, you were on the phone with your friend. When your mother asked you to help her with the laundry, you put the phone to a side, scolded your mother aloud and went back to your room. You told your friend on the phone that “my mother is an asshole”.
How many of us remember the correct things? We always tend to remember the wrong things. Are we being fair to our parents? Why is it that we often fail to remember the sacrifices that our parents have made for us? Is it because we have taken what they had done for us for granted; that we have got complacent? If you sit down and think of the days when your parents spent time teaching you how to ride a bicycle, do you still think that their part-time job is to impart skills to you?
Recently, I just shared this video by Ben Shelton to my Facebook fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2qDaRYVqCE . The theme here is simple: Everyone has their own problems, and that includes our parents. In fact, our parents’ problems may be severer than ours. Why do we choose to see things merely on the surface?
Think about this. Sometimes, our parents scold us. Sometimes, they cane us. They could have used the time to work, watch television programmes or even sleep. Why would they want to exert themselves? Using the Singapore English dialect, you think they so free to scold you cane you ah?
If you realized that you have been remembering the wrong things, maybe it’s time to reflect and change what you want to remember. We all have a choice; We can choose to remember the day when our parents taught us how to wipe our ass, or the day when our parents were assholes.
Lest you are not aware, my next book, For That Day, is going to be launched in March 2011. The subject about family is strongly portrayed in one narrator (there are five different narrators to tell merely one story). If you want to be one of the first few readers to receive the book, please email info@goodybooks.com . Please also do your part by going to http://www.goodybooks.com/ftdsurvey.htm to vote for the cover that you like!
So interesting.
Without hesitation, i paid and joined the preorder for the book.
Looking forward to receiving and tearing open the package and start reading the book!
i am a recently converted Low Kay Hwa fan ever since i read Lilith aka the girl with aids!
i love how the ending of his stories always contain an unexpected twist!
On a side note, Bestie has launched her new collection @ http://lovefiiefiie.blogspot.com!
Go take a look!
