After a five month hiatus, I finally
got around to sitting my ass down and actually writing for this blog. I know, I
know. I didn’t keep my word about me not flaking out on this thing, but certain
events transpired, so I couldn’t bring myself to focus. In retrospect, however,
I realized that everything I went through would have been great material for
this thing, seeing as it’s supposed to be an avenue for me to express my
thoughts. But you know. Whatever.
So I guess what “inspired” me to
start writing here again was seeing my six-year-old sister painting today. She brought
out a set of water colors and an old mayonnaise bottle filled with water, and
then just went at it on her sketchpad. She had a peculiar look on her face. Not
strained like she was focusing on how she wanted her work to look like, but calm…
dreamy, even. Her face was so relaxed and peaceful that I couldn’t help
wondering about what was going through her mind while she was painting. It made
me happy seeing her like that.
I suppose my growing up in a, for
lack of a better term, “broken” home sort of makes me overprotective of her. I was
barely a year older than she is when my parents’ marriage started to crumble,
and it wasn’t easy for me to witness it. At twenty one-years-old, I have to
admit that I still haven’t quite gotten over the things I went through in my
house fourteen years ago. I know, boohoo, right? Well, I don’t want to turn
this post into a diatribe of the way my parents raised me because I really do
love them, especially my departed mother.
But I digress.
My main point in writing today
was to tell you, whoever you are (if you really are there), that I have decided
to make it my personal mission to ensure that my baby sister grows up in a
stress-free, child-friendly, Neverland-esque environment. With my dad and her
mom busy with work and two teenage children, I will take it upon myself to give
her the proper guidance that children with developing minds need. I refuse to
let her grow up to be a cut-up like me. Haw.
So, there. That’s all I wanted to
say today, and I hope that I really do get to be more active on my blog from
now on.
Cheerio for now.
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