Nobody stays a child forever

We are the uncles and Aunties now

Hello guys, how are you all doing today I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Thank you for your previous support as always. Your interactions and comments means a lot to me.

Now, today’s business

I remember when I was younger I always thought uncles and aunties were mean set of people whenever they came around without getting me a gift . Now look at me all grown up. I think I have a better understanding now as to how they felt. Let me explain.

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Money issues 

We always thought of our uncles and aunties as rich people with no real money problems and so they shouldn’t find it hard to spend all their money on us . I had this huge sense of entitlement I mean we are children we are adorable we deserve to get all the money they have  earned .😂😂😂hahaha what a funny way to think .Now look at me all soaked up in responsibilities eating up my money . Well I can’t complain.

Responsibility

You remember how we would  get math problems from school that we couldn’t solve and we would automatically  just assume that our uncles and aunties could solve these problems because they had passed that class and have probably had to solve similar questions like that maybe some 8 or 9 years ago 😂😂😂 . We expect them to know everything. We always assume grown ups know everything.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that we expect them to magically fix stuff when we damage them and sometimes we even expect them to take responsibility of things that we did wrongly and just help us fix them because we are 100% sure they can fix it.

Uncle is strong

Let me tell you a short story ….

When I was 6 my dad once sent me to tell one of his younger brother then to help bring out one of the big generators we had in the house . It was the biggest amongst all the ones we had and because he was 19 at the time I just went there told him and although he told me to look for somebody to help him bring it out I thought to myself “he is a big boy , big boys carry big stuff” I didn’t give much thought to what he asked me to do i just went about my business . He ended up dragging it out but he so much bruises after several failed attempt of trying to carry it. I saw him and I though “what a lazy uncle”. Fast forward to 11 years later I had a similar situation with my younger brother . He just stood there and watched me struggle with a generator of similar build. I was so furious I shouted at him with anger like “ would you get out of my sight and go look for somebody to help me ?” Only for him to reply- “ ahan for this small gen?” I was so furious but you know just thinking about it now is just very funny.

And finally ..

Our relationship with them

Most times we become angry at them if they do not spend time with us . Of course by nature children are free spirits mostly with no responsibility or real life job so we spend most of our time playing or learning new things to play with and so if these “uncles and aunties “ do not find time for us it diminishes our relationship with them and that is because we don’t seem to understand that they are dealing with real life problems.

in conclusion

Growing up has made me realize how much effort your uncles, aunties and even parents put into making sure we turn out great whilst juggling their life’s personal problems and it has helped me to appreciate them more. Although there is nothing we can really do about the circle it will always remain our younger ones would somethings have these thoughts we had same as their younger ones, the prayer is for them go grow up, understand and appreciate the effort of their preceding generations.

well that’s my time

Thank you for taking your time to read an extension of my thoughts I really appreciate you .
Till I write again

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arigato ✌🏼