I can hear the planes flying over the sky...
At home, I have never paid attention to the sound of flight.. not even now...
I didn't hear it before... but I hear it right now.. so clearly.
Tell me where I am?
Where do I belong?
How come I have felt out of place..
I have wanted to take a flight and go.. don't know where...
But "No place is out of place when you are in God's place."
"God is too good to be unkind.
God is too wise to be confused.
When I cannot trace His hand
I can always trust His heart."
- Running with the giants by John C Maxwell
In the past two months, time went by too quickly...
Dad and Mom came here for my graduation. We went to Victoria...uncle went too. It's the first time for such a long time I went on a trip with my parents... When was the last time? .. was it almost 20 years ago? We took the train to Guangzhou.. Dad, Mom, brother and me... Dad flew home alone to deal with the stuff at work. Mom stayed here with me for another month... She didn't ask for much.. she just asked me to drive her around to look at houses... but I was often busy.. and had to have my uncle and aunt or another uncle to take care of her...and I was often tired.. and complained we went out too much...and asked for a break.. I couldn't understand why couldn't she just take a break ... But, indeed, there's really nothing much she could do staying home... she brought here a high-tech cell phone which is like blackberry.. Mom first didn't know how to use it.. and asked me to show her.. however, I am never good with high tech stuff..esp cell phones.. using the time, she's home w/o me.. she learned so quickly how to use the phone to go online and buy in and sell out stocks she had in China... Days went by.. Mom left... Then cousin and his wife came back for a 2 weeks vacation...cousin would say good night to me before he went to bed... we would have random conversations... he asked me to go water maniac.. but I didn't go...Aunty called him "Shui Jai" as a nickname.. he seldom talked back when he's scolded by Uncle and Aunt.. even though they just overdid it... his wife recommended me good places to go for food...4 of them played MJ... they left just today..as well.
Take care.
sigh we never know the importance of certain things until they're gone...
ReplyDeletelets try to cherish things when they're still around!
Sounds like you wish you did things differently when they are around...
ReplyDeleteas I recalled, you tried hard to spend more time with your mom already.. did you not work hard enough already? your mom being here was definitely changing your usual life upside-down, and I thought you dealt with the radical changes the best you could already...
don't give yourself overly rated pressure ..
yeah as erico said, find out what you wish you did differently and do it next time when you have the opportunity! don't do the same thing and regret later!