Do you smile at strangers on the street? Do you smile at your family members? Do you smile at your friends? Do you smile at the little children you see at your local grocery store?
I’ve heard from someone that when a child sees your non-smiling face, that child would think that he’s done something wrong so that you are very unhappy with him. Is it really true? What were you like when you were a child? How was your relationship with your parents? As I think back, I remembered how much I feared my father and how much more I loved my mother.
I feared my father because he looked so serious all the time and he didn’t spend time with me. I realize now that he looked so serious to me when I was a child because he worried about his work and he was preoccupied about the projects he had to finish. He didn’t spend time with me because he was so tired from teaching long hours and exhausted from working his students.
I loved my mother so much more than my father because she was always smiling at me and she spent time with me. I realize now that she was always smiling at me because she didn’t bring her worries home from work and she was happy to be at home with us. She spent time with me because that would be the only way that I would leave my father along so that he could prepare his teaching lessons and correct papers.
My father loved me just as much as my mother did and their love for me is still the same today. But because he didn’t smile at me a lot, I associated his seriousness with how I must have seemed to him. I would always think that I must have done something wrong thus causing him to be very unhappy with me. Truth is that I was totally wrong. Oh, my poor little me. If I only knew, I would have been so happy.
As for me, I have decided that I would always smile at my beloved nephews because they are the apples of my eyes.
I’ve heard from someone that when a child sees your non-smiling face, that child would think that he’s done something wrong so that you are very unhappy with him. Is it really true? What were you like when you were a child? How was your relationship with your parents? As I think back, I remembered how much I feared my father and how much more I loved my mother.
I feared my father because he looked so serious all the time and he didn’t spend time with me. I realize now that he looked so serious to me when I was a child because he worried about his work and he was preoccupied about the projects he had to finish. He didn’t spend time with me because he was so tired from teaching long hours and exhausted from working his students.
I loved my mother so much more than my father because she was always smiling at me and she spent time with me. I realize now that she was always smiling at me because she didn’t bring her worries home from work and she was happy to be at home with us. She spent time with me because that would be the only way that I would leave my father along so that he could prepare his teaching lessons and correct papers.
My father loved me just as much as my mother did and their love for me is still the same today. But because he didn’t smile at me a lot, I associated his seriousness with how I must have seemed to him. I would always think that I must have done something wrong thus causing him to be very unhappy with me. Truth is that I was totally wrong. Oh, my poor little me. If I only knew, I would have been so happy.
As for me, I have decided that I would always smile at my beloved nephews because they are the apples of my eyes.
Smile! I love you!
No comments:
Post a Comment