Mother’s day, Father’s Day and Birthdays.
Since May, it has been a celebration of sorts. We have Mother’s day, Father’s day and even commercially Parents Day. Why not, life is a celebration of one day or another, in short, every day we should celebrate the fact that we are alive!
A few weekends ago, we celebrated mum’s 80th birthday. Yes mum is 80! Wow. How did she get there? Well she did, and it’s another milestone seeing how her health has been poorly somewhat the last few years. But mum being mum, it was an achievement. So once again we gathered with close family and relatives to dine, wine and celebrate. It’s sad dad couldn’t be with us, but we know he was in spirit.
The dinner at Peking Restaurant, Johor Bharu was nice, meeting up with close ones is always fun and catching up is always great. So once again, it’s exchanging stories and finding out what’s happening in each family’s life. Also when there is a gathering of closed ones and good food, it’s always the case of warmth and exchange of pleasantries. Then, its time to depart with exchanges of goodbyes with promises of meeting up again at another function of sorts. So mum’s birthday celebrated a week early was celebrated with all loved ones near with the exception of my sister who is still in London. Come October, she’ll be back and I am sure we will be celebrating again.
I like these gatherings, but makes me think about life in general. Why bother about the small stuff ? Why get flustered over the unreasonable bosses and pretentious colleaques? Why not just put our best foot forward, and ignore the unreasonable demands? Yes life is too short for all those kinds of things. Great sacrifices are made as I speak, I mean the Bersih movement. People are literally ‘dying’ for justice and political reforms. Why are we still embroiled in office politics, it’s not worth it!
So for the rest of the busy week ahead, I shall be patient and do my part, expect that things will work out in the end. Cheerio.
Happy 80th Birthday mum. Comgratulations! It’s not every day that we get to live till this ripe old age. We look forward to many more years to come.
Love you mum.
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