I've been hearing a lot of childhood stories, my own and my siblings'. There is something I think is funny that I’d like to share here.
I can't help emphasizing again and again that the elders in my family are really protective and they are really strict in disciplining us. Most of the time they would just tell you “Don’t do this!” “Go and do that!” and believe me they still do. Well, we all know they do that because they want to protect us and don’t want us to hurt ourselves. That’s of good intention. I never doubt that. However, one big thing they don’t realize is human beings especially children can be really stubborn at times. The more you want them to do, the further you chase them away.
My youngest sis is the cheekiest ones amongst us. My grandma was the one who took care of us while my parents worked. According to her, my youngest sis is the most playful one thus far other than my little brother. While my grandma was telling us our childhood stories, she was actually laughing when pictures of my youngest sis when she’s a kiddo projected on her mind. One of the funny incidents about my sis was my grandma always warned us not to pick up stuff on the floor and put into our mouths when we were babies. She told that to my little sis too. One late morning my grandma was cooking in the kitchen and keeping an eye watching my 18-month sister. She constantly turned her head around to check out the baby and even reminded her again to stay away from dangerous stuff and don’t put stuff to her mouth. My baby sis smiled and nodded her head. My grandma happily continued her cooking chore. Then minutes later, she heard a loud scream. She immediately ran to my sis, who’s just a few steps away. To my grandma’s astonishment, she found that my sis’s mouth was reddish swollen. Poor grandma was panicking and started crying while trying to find out what’d happened. You won’t believe this; the naughty girl just picked up some really hot small chilli and stuffed it into her mouth. Oh boy!
Whenever my little sis heard this story, she would just join our laughter. There was one time she came to me and actually did explain that she actually knew what she was doing at that age on that day. She told me that she’s just really curious how the red stuff tasted and why grandma always told us not to do this and that. She wanted to find out herself the reason why she’s prohibited in doing certain things. Thank goodness, curiosity only kills the cat but not my sis. *lol*
Well, this little childhood story does tell us something not? I think sometimes we are warned for the outcome about certain things if we do this and if we do that. Yet, we don’t tend to agree at least half of the time about these warnings. What if we go for this and not that as we told? Probably it might not turn out that bad as others thought. The more we think about those “what ifs” or “maybe”, the more uncertain we feel. And worse still we may start blaming others in not giving us the freedom in experiencing what we like.
No one likes to be hurt. Of course we always like to protect our beloved ones from being hurt to. That’s not funny to see someone being hurt at all. But you know sometimes stopping us/them from doing certain things won’t totally prevent us/them from being hurt. We may never learn or just always wonder how it would turn out if we chose the other way. Look at my sis, from that little event onwards, though she didn’t pick up red hot chilli to her mouth anymore, she actually tried other stuff (you don't even want to know what she tried), at least she learned her lesson each time. You know, sometimes we may just learn better and quicker by hurting ourselves, as long as we don’t kill ourselves at once!
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