Day 22: Write About Today

June 5, 2022

Today is Sunday. We went to church like how our Sundays are planned. We met with our fellows and sang songs and partake the communion. Today we had the final meeting for our church's anniversary. It's supposed to be lunch fellowship Sunday but most of us went home early. There was an unexpected problem regarding the delegation of tasks to the members. Sometimes in our quest to befriend non-members, we sacrifice our feelings and sense of responsibility to the members.

Today is Sunday. After we came home from church. My niece went to our neighbour's house. We don't want her to just go hop into our neighbour's houses because we are not that close to them in the first place. But what can we do? My niece is just three years old and gets tired after playing on her own. The moment she hears our neighbours having fun in another neighbour's house, she would go out to play with them. Unfortunately, these kids are not good playmates. They deprived my niece to enjoy the toys that they are playing with.

To add insult to the injury, the owners of that house don't like my niece. My mother who was on her way to fetch my niece saw our neighbours giving treats to the kids except for my niece. I'm sure I'm not a mad aunt but as an adult, I wouldn't have favouritism when it comes to kids. I will make sure to give them equal opportunities. Take note, that these neighbours are the same neighbours who like to compare niece with other kids. Issues like my niece have only little to few words which she can utter. I don't want to deal with these kinds of moms. Don't they know about speech delay, every child is special and has multiple intelligence?

My niece is cute and neat. I don't know why my neighbours find it hard to treat her right. Well, I don't care about them. I just hope that she grows old enough already to understand that some people just don't like her that much for no reason and the world is cruel. As much as possible, we make sure that she'll enjoy our company so she won't have to go to our neighbour's house. But as we all know it's impossible, as a kid also longs for a kid's company. The problem here is that the kids here treat her like a competitor and they don't like to play with her.

I'm just an aunt and I have a feeling that when I'll become a mom I would make sure to raise my child away from people who have limited comprehension. I just want moms to be more understanding to other kids and stop comparing. I don't wanna be a bigger person anymore because people tend to take advantage of our silence. Some people think so highly of themselves that they fail to take into consideration the feelings of other people.

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