This is a chance that god gave me to understand the meaning of “the sweetest burden”, and also let me to know and see what I used to be and what I should be…
I did not know anything about a “family”, because I am the only child in my family. My parents did every thing in our family life: they paid the bills for everyday used, they brought the food for all meals, and they decided what to do and where to go in a weekend and so on. I even didn’t know how much my school fee was, as my parents would pay for it, and that was nothing with my business. The things I did for my family were poor. Might be for some weekend, I helped a little to clean up the house; might be in some day, I helped my mother to carry some food on the way back home from the market. For the most of time, I just did my own things—read some funny books, did the homework, shopped with my friends, or had a day dreaming in my bedroom. My parents took a good care of my life, and I did not have to worry about anything.
But things have changed since we immigrated to the United States. As my parents only knew a little big of English, and they couldn’t communicate with the other people normally, the “family” things turned in to my life. Day by day, I began to understand that a “family” is not easy to take care of. Although I don’t have to do the whole household by my own, the other family things keep my busy. I have to keep the entire bill due days in mind in order to keep all the things working in home; I have to go shop the food in the list my mother gave me so that my mom can cook for the lunch and dinner. If my parents have a decision to go somewhere in the weekend, sometimes I should be the driver so that we couldn’t get lost. Also I have to know my fee for schools, not only study. That’s a big changing in my life; I was from doing a little thing for home to become to do the most of things for home. I am busy now; almost as busy as my parents used to be. I do not only have to take care of my own life, but also the life of my family—of my parents.
Changing from a person who was taken care by somebody to a person who has to take care of someone make me think a lot.
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Your thesis is consistent with you’re your paragraphs. I think you should make the intro longer. You give good evidence. I think maybe you should give a full example of one of the experience you explained and maybe give more detail on how you felt with your shift in position in the family.
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