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Clips of Thoughts
来源：洪恩论坛 Canuck's Comments
日期：2005-1-25
作者：caroline.
阅读：1222 次
“Mum, could you please stop talking like that?” I said on the phone impatiently.
“Ok, Ok… anyway, it’s none of my business at all.” my mother murmured, with a sign.
I can’t remember, starting from when, my mother began to harp on me, by saying I should have a boyfriend and marry him. In her eyes, as a girl, I should engage in someone soon after I graduate. She fails to understand why I am so insistent in further study, and vice versa, I should say.
I used to call her very often, per time every week at least. But ever since I
started to see someone two years before now, every time when I phoned her, she talked nothing but the relationship between the boy and me.
“You should seize the very opportunity, daughter. Look at your sister, she is
two years older than you, but she fails to get a boyfriend yet.” She always said
.
“Shouldn’t I be allowed to have something else except for getting a fiancé?
When the gap appeared between you and me?” I shouted out these words in my heart, whereas said nothing in the presence of her.
In my dormitory, the other two girls talk to their parents on the phone regularly. And they talk everything. Then what about me? My dear mother scarcely asked me about my study, surely, part of the reason is I have never let them worry about it ever since my childhood. But can’t she just encourage me once in a while? Her daughter is independent, but not that independent.
“Why don't you just talk to her once, heart to heart?” one of my roommates suggested.
Seeing me being overwhelmed by my mother’s words, she was pretty puzzled. Forher, her mother never mentioned this unless she took the lead. Even if they didtalk, there is no any embarrassment about it at all. Her parents seldom interfere.
But could I? I still remember once last year I tried to tell my mum, in briefthough, about what I was planning to do during that vacation. I also told her that I wanted many other things, besides a stable relationship. But she seemed confused.
“I am nearly fifty years old now, too old to understand what’s in your mind.
”Replied she.
So what could I do? Except for trying not to let her down,by keeping silent and pretending to be obedient,or just ceasing to call her any more, what else could I do? After all, it shouldn’t be her to blame totally. The environment in the little town should be the one to blame, if at all. There it’s almost an obligation for a girl to get married and take care of the whole family after she is after twenty-odd years old.
“Why not just let it be?” My sister comforted me, by saying.
Of course, my sister got the same words from my mother, except that my mother
wanted her to seek for a boyfriend, instead of holding a one. But it seems to me that my sister seldom was bothered by this. She still smiled every time when we chatted.
“Don’t forget, she is our Mum.” My sister always replied, whenever I asked
how she could react to my mum’s words so calmly.
Yes, I think she is right. Her words also reminds me of one article I read theother day, in which it said we were all prone to complain about what we have, and desire endlessly to what we don’t have. Instead of adjusting myself to the thing or situation I can’t make a change for, I complained and made meaningless
comparison a lot.
Fortunately,thank god, it’s still not late.
Caroline
