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To Be a Real Daughter

We all know that yesterday was Mother’s Day. And I want to ask how many of us give a phone call to mother at least to give them a simple blessing? If you do, put up your hand, please. Well, that’s good. Okay, today I want to talk something about daughter and mother.

At the afternoon of the day before yesterday, I had a talk with my mother though the phone. Before she called me, I was thinking to call her, but I was also worried about disturbing her middy rest. So about four o’clock, she gave a call to me. She said she was just in the bed to wait for my elder sister to go home, there was nothing to do, and she was just felt boring. At first, I sent my good wishes to her and then we had a chit-chat. I told her to live a happy life and wait for me to support her after I graduate from school. She seemed unhappy on hearing this. She told me that I would change when I have my own life. That sounded a little ear-piercing but it is somewhat of the reality.

That indeed aroused my thinking. How many children become unfilial when they grow up, especially when they get married? If you do the research, you will find the number is amazing. We often watch TV over meal, and usually witness somebody who again mistreat their parents is exposed by the media. We may say, oh, shit! How can they be like that! How rotten! Why did parents raise them painstakingly? When saying this, whether we do any self-examination? Whether we respect our parents as what we should? Whether we care about parents a lot just as a real child should do?

Let’s come back to the question above, why did my mother say like that when I promise to look after her after my graduation？She told me the reason. That was a thing happened last week. After the May Day, my mother and I went back to my elder sister’s. It was raining that day, and mum took something to my sister. The carton was a little heavy. When we were waiting for the bus, she went to a neighbor who ran a restaurant in the street and tried to borrow a thicker rope for I was hurt by the thin rope, but she was in vein, as a result, she was too hurry to leave her umbrella in the neighbor’s in order to get the bus, so she asked me to call my cousin to took back the umbrella from the neighbor.

However, I thought it was too troublesome and thought the neighbor would give it back when we at home, so I refused to do what she remand me to do. She said the neighbor won’t give it back, because she had borrowed our cable but denied to have done that. Then I said the words I will regret forever. I said, the umbrella was just 13 Yuan only; I will buy you a new one someday. Sitting in the front of the bus, she said nothing to me, and I was in the back of the bus, silent. Maybe because there was a distance between us, and I don’t like to speak in public too loudly, so what I response was a little impatient. And that did hurt mum deeply. She said we won’t be happy together, because we are not in the same group, she said I can’t understand how hard money is made.

I really feel ashamed for what I did that day. I don’t want to deny my fealty to my parents. But sometimes I was indeed wrong. If there is another same situation, I would not say that, absolutely. So adults I am, I should act like a real daughter.

So I hope you can learn something from the story. That’s all. Thank you for listening!