I just found out from my sisters that my grandmother was hospitalized. I immediately called my aunt and my mom to find out how she was doing. Thankfully it was nothing severe. It was such a relief to hear that she’s discharging tomorrow after going through a thorough medical examination.
If I did not buzz one of my sisters today online, I would have not knew this news. In fact my sisters heard the news from my little brother yesterday as they are studying in another country. This also indicates that my family has tried not to alert the few of us who are away the family with the good intention of not wanting to distract us or worse still shock us. As much as I appreciate their thoughtfulness, I do not ever think that they should keep things from us albeit we couldn’t help much to deal with this kind of incident. Still, we are part of the family and we should be aware of what is going on in the family regardless of our geographical location.
What is a family? It basically defines a group of people who are related. Yes, since we are related, shouldn’t we work as a unit? Not only we share happiness with other family member, we should shoulder responsibilities and work through unhappiness together. But unfortunately our mind is always occupied by so many matters; we are so busy with our own lives and hence neglected others in our family. If only we had paid attention to my grandmother more, she would have suffered lesser and received appropriate medical treatment earlier. See, my grandmother is also a serious practitioner of considerate; the moment she began feeling unwell, she did not want to alert the younger ones at home. It was not until the strong lady could not take it any more that she agreed to alarm my mom and the kids sent her to her physician. All along I know we have not been paying too much attention to my grandmother. But this incident really warns us that she is no longer very young and thus we should keep closer eye on her.
Hmm…when have you last check about your family members? Spending some time calling them, talking and listening to them would not take up too much of our precious schedule.
Don’t wait till it’s too late.
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