I often heard the saying, "You can't choose your parents, but you can choose your friends."

I don't want to talk about friends today, so let it be with the parents instead. It's indeed true. Though we don't like or they don't like us, we still can't change the genes in our blood that are proof that we came from them. Then no matter how good or bad the way that they have raised us or treated us, we can do nothing about it but to bear with it until the end and still hope that they would be better someday.

It's Sunday again, and I don't want to force myself to think of a topic. So here I again, doing another prompt. I don't know how many prompts I have done this week, but as long there are one, I'll take it if I can. I found this @Ruffa's article, 4 days ago. I saved it for the rainy days to come and yeah, it did come every Sunday. Just on my brain, though.

Okay, then without further ado, let me start answering those random questions about my parents.

What do you want to feel from your parents?

Back when I was a kid and I teenager, I wanted to feel to be loved and be cared for. For a family that has five children, of course, you can't surely expect that they can all have equal treatment from their parents. That was something that I didn't understand back then. I often felt out of place and it became like a chronic disease of me that I could feel even on the outside world. I can feel it everywhere. I feel like I don't belong and that's the thing that I have been wanting from my parents back then —their love, time, and comforting words to make me feel that I have a family that I can belong to.

Now that I have a child, all that matters most is they accept my child and they would love her even if they don't love me. I can see that they treat her best. Grandparents indeed love their grandchildren more than their children.

What do you think is the reason why your parents are strict?

For other parents, maybe because it's for the greater good, but as for my parents, I just felt like they just don't want to get gossiped about by the Marites in town, and they can't be embarrassed when they faced their friends. My mother is a little concerned about my good well-being but my father just only cares what his friends would say and what will be the opinion of other people. He often got angry when people talked about us when he drink with his friends.

Have you ever experienced being compared by your parents to your siblings?

Always. HAHAHA. They always have compared me to my not-so-perfect cousins. Not that I'm affected and pressured with that, I'm just annoyed with it. Everyone has their own pace on how they make things done and achieve something in their life. Not everyone likes to do that or do this. We have our preferences and have our goals to pursue. We have different talents and have different levels of intelligence. If they are better than me, then good for them. LOL.

What is your dream for your parents?

I always dreamed that they could have a day to go by without quarreling. I really dream that they could have a truce one day, then live a peaceful and harmonious life. I also wish that let their pride sink and turn to me whenever they need money, so they wouldn't lend some money to lenders in our place that give higher interests. It is still me that would pay all of it because they don't have a daily income to pay it. Gossipers or Marites is so fast to defame us when they can't pay the money back at their due date. I don't like hearing people talking about us, so in the end, it is still me that will pay it all.

Happy Sunday!!!

I haven't listened carefully to the worship service this morning, so I'm going to listen to it later. So aside from not pushing myself to think every Sunday, I also want to start devoting myself to God even if it's just a day. I want to clear my tasks right away, so there wouldn't be any distractions. Thanks for this prompt and it saved my day again.

Also, thanks for reading!

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