Monday, August 13, 2007

Parents

I have read an article before which talks about parents, it is originally in Chinese:


If you are born in a normal family,
If your parents are still alive.

No matter you are living with them or not,
If one day, you discovered that your mother's kitchen is not as clean as before.

If one day, you discovered that the dishes at home are not clean.

If one day, you discovered that your mother's pot is not shiny.

If one day, you discovered that your father's plants become wither.

If one day, you discovered that the funitures at home are covered with dust.

If one day, you discovered that your mother's dishes are too salty and not delicious.

If one day, you discovered that your parents always forget to turn off the gas.

If one day, you discovered that your old parents lost their habits,
like they don't want to take bath every day.

If one day, you discovered that your parents don't like to eat fresh vegetables and fruits.

If one day, you discovered that your parents like to eat soft vegetables which have cooked for a long time.

If one day, you discovered that your parents like eating soft food.

If one day, you discovered that they react slowly even when they across the road.

If one day, you discovered that they keep caughing when they are having meals.

Don't misunderstand they have catched a cold or a flu,

If one day, you discovered that they don't like going out.
If that day really comes,

I want to tell you, you should realise that your parents really getting old.
Their organs become old and need someone to take care.

If you could not look after them, please at least find someone to take good care of them.

And please visit them frequently.
Don't let them feel that they are being left behind.

Everyone would get old.

Our parents got old before us.

We should think in their position and take care of them,

Then we will have patient and we will not complain.

When parents can not look after themselves anymore, we as their children should be aware,
They may not able to do something even for the basic ones.


It all begins after we were born,
Our parents take good care of us:
Change the napkins, look after us day and night when we were sick,
Teach us the basic of living, give financial support for our studies and entertainments.
Their concerns to us never stop.

If one day,
They couldn't move anymore,
We should change our position, right?
Being a son or daughter should remember
The life of our parents are just like the future of us,
We should show filial devotion for our parents if we have chance.

If one day,
you got old just like your parents, what kind of life do you want to have?
Do yo aware of your parents?

What our parents have done for us are always more than what we have done for them.

So, being a responsible son or daughter, we should treat our parents as good as we can. Actually not only after our parents got old, we should treat them the best right from this moment.
If not, sure we will regret afterwards.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

hi, Winnie, I strongly agree with you, cos I also know every bady will be old, if you were not kind to your parents, your children wouldn't do that for you. when our parents become old in the future, we must take care of them with patient, cos when we were young, they used to do.

Peter Podcast said...

I sometimes wish Australian kids were more like the Chinese ones