...the blood that ran through my vein...

There are times that we wish our parents were much much better than they are/were; more nurturing, more caring to our needs, be at our beck and call, not pay so much attention to our siblings, or their job or their friends or their hobbies...infact, they should not even have a world of their own and should make us their entire world. How dare them not being there when we want them to be or give us what we want! How dare them to be so selfish; to not care for their child! How could they abandon me??Why are they such a disappointment?? I didn't ask to be born!

And as we grow and have children of our own, we are hurt when the 4-year old screamed from the top of the staircase "i wish you are not my parents!"  or the time when a 16 year old looked at you and muttered under his breath, scowling that he thought that "the older the person, the wiser he should be,..but it doesn't seem to be that way" (that's my son) or hear a word from them weeks after weeks after weeks on the flimsy excuse that they are busy, oh so busy so busy so busy that they couldn't leave two words and we are not even asking for the three little words. 

No matter how much our parents disappoint us or how much our children disappoint us, that invisible cord connecting two generations can never be broken. Maybe the distance is only a few hundred miles away, or maybe just 10 km away, yet it may feel as though we come from different universe, but still, we are linked ...i can't take you out of me, nor you can take me out of you. We are still part of one.

So, live with it... better yet, celebrate it!

...because when they are no longer there, nothing in thie world would be able to fill that void.

"And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them, "uff," and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word. And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small."